I have a requirement to sort a set of records that come in an array. The sorting criteria for that array is all most current records (by date) should come first followed by older ones. If there are multiple records on same day, then older record should come first followed by newer records...

Example:
If I have records like this..

$dateArray[0] =20010405000000;
$dateArray[1] =20050405005000;
$dateArray[2] =20020405081200;
$dateArray[3] =20080405022500;
$dateArray[4] =20080405022600;
$dateArray[5] =20080405023500;
$dateArray[6] =20090405022500;
$dateArray[7] =20090405022300;
$dateArray[8] =20090405022900;
$dateArray[9] =20090405022100;

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After sorting It should contain elements in below order..
20090405022100
20090405022300
20090405022500
20090405022900
20080405022500
20080405022600
20080405023500
20050405005000
20020405081200
20010405000000

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In reply to Date to be sorted in descending and time in ascending by karthik7887

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