Program Discussion :: Strings

Sort a list of dates in ascending order given the data format shown below:

Each date is in the form ddmmmyyyy where
dd is the set {0-31}
mmm is in the set {Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec)
yyyy is four digits.

Example
dates = {'01 Mar 2017';'03 Feb 2017';'15 Jan 1998']
The array dates sort to ['15 Jan 1998';'03 Feb 2017';'01 Mar 2017';]