Sort by a date tv

Objective

Sort by a custom date stored in a template variable and have that date be displayed in a human readable form in the placeholder.

Steps

Create the template variable "myDate" with the input type "Date" and the widget "Unixtime" making sure it is available to your template
Append
```
&sortBy=`myDate` &dateSource=`myDate`
```
to your Ditto call

Append

&dateFormat=`%c`

to your Ditto call where "%c" is one of the formats below:

Property	Description
%a	abbreviated weekday name according to the current locale
%A	full weekday name according to the current locale
%b	abbreviated month name according to the current locale
%B	full month name according to the current locale
%c	preferred date and time representation for the currentlocale
%C	century number (the year divided by 100 and truncated toan integer, range 00 to 99)
%d	day of the month as a decimal number (range 01 to 31)
%D	same as %m/%d/%y
%e	day of the month as a decimal number, a single digit ispreceded by a space (range "1" to "31")
%g	like %G, but without the century.
%G	The 4-digit year corresponding to the ISO week number (see %V).This has the same format and value as %Y, except that if the ISO week number belongs to the previous or next year, that year is used instead.
%h	same as %b
%H	hour as a decimal number using a 24-hour clock (range 00 to 23)
%I	hour as a decimal number using a 12-hour clock (range 01 to 12)
%j	day of the year as a decimal number (range 001 to 366)
%m	month as a decimal number (range 01 to 12)
%M	minute as a decimal number
%n	newline character
%p	either "am" or "pm" according to the given time value, or the corresponding strings for the current locale
%r	time in a.m. and p.m. notation
%R	time in 24 hour notation
%S	second as a decimal number
%t	tab character
%T	current time, equal to `%H:%M:%S`
%u	weekday as a decimal number [1,7], with 1 representing Monday
%U	week number of the current year as a decimal number, starting with the first Sunday as the first day of the first week
%V	The ISO 8601:1988 week number of the current year as a decimal number, range 01 to 53, where week 1 is the first week that has at least 4 days in the current year, and with Monday as the first day of the week. (Use %G or %g for the year component that corresponds to the week number for the specified timestamp.)
%W	week number of the current year as a decimal number, starting with the first Monday as the first day of the first week
%w	day of the week as a decimal, Sunday being 0
%x	preferred date representation for the current locale without the time
%X	preferred time representation for the current locale without the date
%y	year as a decimal number without a century (range 00 to 99)
%Y	year as a decimal number including the century
%Z or %z	time zone or name or abbreviation
%%	a literal "%" character

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