How to sort Date/Time column in angular 4 material sort?

Question

I\'m using angular material table and using matSort for sorting. But it\'s not sorting the dates/time column. It takes the datetime column values as strings.

How to sor

Answer 1

Here is solution:

this.dataSource.sortingDataAccessor = (item, property): string | number => {
  switch (property) {
    case 'fromDate': return new Date(item.fromDate).toNumber();
    default: return item[property];
  }
};

MatTableDataSource has sortingDataAccessor which we can customize as per our need.