Sort string array containing time in format '09:00 AM'?

Question

I am trying to sort my array.

The array consists of data in time format.

Array:

'9:15 AM', '10:20 AM', '02:15 PM'

How should I sort it ?

I'm getting this data usig json service & using it to list events in jquery mobile's listview . but I want to sort events by time .

UPDATE: HOW I SORTED DATA FROM JSON BY BOTH DATE AND TIME:

For my particular problem of sorting data got using json by date & time I done like this :

$.getJSON(serviceURL + 'read.php?month_no='+month_no, function(data) {


        events = data.data;

        events.sort(function(a,b){
            a = new Date(a.event_date+' '+a.event_time);
            b = new Date(b.event_date+' '+b.event_time);
            return a<b?-1:a>b?1:0;
       });


}); 

Answer 1

Try this

var times = ['01:00 am', '06:00 pm', '12:00 pm', '03:00 am', '12:00 am'];  times.sort(function (a, b) {   return new Date('1970/01/01 ' + a) - new Date('1970/01/01 ' + b); });  console.log(times); 

Answer 2

My solution (For times formated like "11:00", "16:30"..)

sortTimes: function (array) {
    return array.sort(function (a, b) {
        if (parseInt(a.split(":")[0]) - parseInt(b.split(":")[0]) === 0) {
            return parseInt(a.split(":")[1]) - parseInt(b.split(":")[1]);
        } else {
            return parseInt(a.split(":")[0]) - parseInt(b.split(":")[0]);
        }
    })
}

In case someone wanted to know haha