Sort Month name field chronologically instead of alphabetically

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#1

Hello Airtable community

I have a formula field which show date as month name only: DATETIME_FORMAT({DELIVERY DATE}, “MMMM”) I wanted to use this field to group each month’s records.
Unfortunately, the sort function does not sort chronologically as it should for a date, but rather alphabetically. How can I force a chronological sort?

Thanks in advance
Sally

#2

Hi Sally. The only way I know how would be like this…

DATETIME_FORMAT({DELIVERY DATE},'MM') & '-' & DATETIME_FORMAT({DELIVERY DATE},'MMMM')

It appends the 2 digit month to the front in order to sort the way you want.

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#3

Thank you so much! This will work fine for my purposes!

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