tonytomov/jqGrid — pull request #281 by OlegKi (2012-03-26 10:35:15+00:00)
Title: Support local data having type Date

(copy of [the previous pull request](https://github.com/tonytomov/jqGrid/pull/279))

The problem as discussed in [the answer](http://stackoverflow.com/a/9728073/315935).

[The demo](http://www.ok-soft-gmbh.com/jqGrid/DateToSort1.htm) can be used to reproduce the bug in existing code.
[The next demo](http://www.ok-soft-gmbh.com/jqGrid/DateToSort2.htm) used the fixed code.

Signed-off-by: Dr. Oleg Kiriljuk