Sorting months in a list

Question

I have a list of strings which contains months of the year. I need to be able to sort this list so the months are in order by month, not alphabetically. I have been search

Answer 1

Create an enum and assign int values for each month. Sort that thing with linq.

Answer 2

You can use a Dictionary<int,string> instead, using the int as a month number for sorting, then sorting by key.

IDictionary<int,string> monthList = new Dictionary<int,string>();
monthList.Add(6, "June");
monthList.Add(2, "February");
monthList.Add(8, "August");

var sorted = monthList.OrderBy(item => item.Key);