When sorting a table, cells containing a <time> tag should be considered as a date instead of text.
If the tag contain a datime attribute it should be used to determine the date (ISO format), otherwise the cell content should be used (ISO too if it follow HTML5 standard)
Example of valid time tag :
<time datetime="2016-11-07">Monday, November 7, 2016</time>
<time>2016-11-07</time>
This shouldn't be difficult to implement. We handle <img alt="…">, which is basically the same thing in this context. See the getElementSortKey() function in tablesorter source code.
Change 325916 had a related patch set uploaded (by Harish halo):
Add <time> as date in ISO format when sorted
Change 325916 abandoned by Harish halo:
Add <time> as date in ISO format when sorted
Reason:
Wrong and looks complex with parsing, hence i thought we can go with 325915 itself.
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Change 325916 abandoned by Thiemo Kreuz (WMDE):
[mediawiki/core@master] Add <time> as date in ISO format when sorted
Reason:
Inactive for 4 years and very incomplete anyway, as far as I can see.
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Change 645530 had a related patch set uploaded (by Diwanshu885; owner: Diwanshu885):
[mediawiki/core@master] Modify the 'getElementSortKey()' function to add <time>
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