How to format and sort a date in Oracle?

Question

In my application am trying to format and sort the date, i am using to_char() function to format the date to my required format, but when i sort them it is sorting

Answer 1

If you let Oracle sort (recommended), just do it like described in Justin Cave's answer. If, for some reason, you do the sorting in Java, do not use to_char; get the dates as Date objects instead and use e.g. a SimpleDateFormat to do the formatting in Java (after sorting).