I see this: https://datatables.net/reference/option/columns.type
From what I understand, effectively a date column can only be sorted provided they are displayed as YYYY-MM-DD?
Is that right? The "limited set of dates" link to in the option shows YYYY-MM-DD ... YYYY/MM/DD
Which effectively is just sorting numerically and doesn't really require the field type to be a date? If I put the date into a format that allows sorting numerically, there is no point to defining a column type = date?
As can be seen, http://live.datatables.net/lidequra/21/edit - all date columns are displayed DD/MM/YY and don't sort
Am I misinterpreting the doco? Displaying the date as YYYY-MM-DD is really unfriendly and I want to avoid it?