# Sorting inlinline lists with date and time

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/sorting-inlinline-lists-with-date-and-time/2281>\
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**Created:** [November 22, 2019, 9:33am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/sorting-inlinline-lists-with-date-and-time/2281 "2019-11-22T09:33:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jeff\_Hager](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jeff_hager/32/43_2.png) [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2019, 4:33pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/sorting-inlinline-lists-with-date-and-time/2281/5 "2019-11-23T16:33:33Z")

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Just remember that you can always reformat the date into YYYYMMDD which allows for easy sorting. I believe Glide allows for proper sorting of date columns, but I haven’t experimented much with that.

> [@Is there an alternative to 'Sort by Date'?](https://community.glideapps.com/t/is-there-an-alternative-to-sort-by-date/943/2):
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> Just create a column along side your date column called whatever you want, maybe DateString. Then in the app sort by that column. Here is a picture of what it would look like

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