format date US 'MM/DD/YYYY" in DataTables - datatables

Question

https://communitychessclub.com/examine.php DataTables with moment.js is sorting date as a string, not a date. How can I get a sample date of "08/23/2018" to sort properly? That is, I want to sort "mm/dd/yyyy". I simply can't get this to work.
<script src="//cdn.datatables.net/1.10.19/js/jquery.dataTables.min.js"></script>
<script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/moment.js/2.8.4/moment.min.js"></script>
<script src="//cdn.datatables.net/plug-ins/1.10.19/sorting/datetime-moment.js"></script>
<script src="js/dataTables.keepConditions.min.js"></script>
<script>
$.fn.dataTable.moment = function ( format, locale ) {
var types = $.fn.dataTable.ext.type;
// Add type detection
types.detect.unshift( function ( d ) {
return moment( d, format, locale, true ).isValid() ?
'moment-'+format :
null;
} );
// Add sorting method - use an integer for the sorting
types.order[ 'moment-'+format+'-pre' ] = function ( d ) {
return moment( d, format, locale, true ).unix();
};
};
</script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function() {
$.fn.dataTable.moment( 'MM/DD/YYYY' );
$('#cccr').DataTable( {
"ajax": "assets/games.ajax",
"pageLength": 25,
"order": [[ 8, "desc" ]],
"columns": [
{ "data": "Date", "width": "7rem", },
{ "data": "Event" },
{ "data": "ECO" },
{ "data": "White" },
{ "data": "WhiteElo" },
{ "data": "Black" },
{ "data": "BlackElo" },
{ "data": "Result" },
{ "data": "game", visible : false }
]
} );
} );
</script>

Answer 1

Found the culprit. It's in the data - following row:
{
"game": "5533",
"Date": "05/1/2010",
"Event": "RCC FIDE RR #2",
"ECO": "C56",
"White": "Nikolayev, Igor (FM)",
"WhiteElo": "2367",
"Black": "Jones, Aaaron",
"BlackElo": "1966",
"Result": "1-0"
},
You have the format DD to read but the date here is of the format D which makes it a different format which ends up messing the table sorting.
Here's a plunkr including above row as is:
http://plnkr.co/edit/eYRVBr8P4g7Ua4Z7K6JG?p=preview
Fixing the above date format, here's a new plunkr:
http://plnkr.co/edit/zPF9LDZjAAZeqXIJ3XOF?p=preview
And as Alan (DataTables author) suggests in this comment:
At the moment the plug-in only supports a single format in each column. If could probably be modified if you needed to support two or more formats in a single column.
Using a common format for all the dates will help you fix the issue.
Hope this helps.