[TPB_helper] Sort order is messed up when search results are sorted by "date uploaded"

[NitroV]

Describe the bug

The sort order is all over the place once search results are sorted by the date uploaded.

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Search for anything
2. Click on "Uploaded" column

Expected behavior

Should be in proper ascending or descending order

Screenshots

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Win7ProX64SP1
• Browser Chromium 88.0.4324.104
• Version Script-2020.7.30/Violentmonkey-2.12.9

Additional context

The above screenshot shows when results are sorted in ascending order, it simply inverts when clicked again. Still incorrect.

Unrelated to the issue/Enhancement:

Please consider including dark theme for tpb as a part of helper extension. Themes can be found here, here or here.

[darkred]

This is rather complicated:

• Regarding the generated Ratio column:
  • initially (before June 2020) the search results tables were not sortable at all.
  • I was using the tablesorter jquery plugin in the script just to make the generated Ratio column sortable alone.
  • Recently (June 2020) the pages (all columns) are now sortable built-in, that's why I removed that functionality, as it was only meant for the Ratio column.
• Regarding the Uploaded column:
  • The script converts the Uploaded column to relative format. The built-in sorting functionality takes these values as plain text, not taking account the actual durations, and sorts them alphabetically - in your screenshot, in reverse it would be:

    6 months ago
    6 years ago
    7 months ago 
    8 years ago 
    Today 

Unfortunately, there's nothing I can do to fix this:

tablesorter works on standard HTML tables (with THEAD and TBODY tags)

but the tpb search result tables are no longer standard HTML tables.

Also, I can't make tablesorter work only on a single column, nor disable the built-in sorting, then convert the whole table to standard (it would break the tables styling/layout, among other things).

I can only suggest to either avoid clicking to sort by the Uploaded header, or comment out line 383 of the script (convertDates();) to disable getting relative dates in search results. (the Display torrent timestamps in relative format: setting affects timestamps in torrent pages, not search results)

---

Regarding your suggestion, I use this userstyle https://userstyles.org/styles/150101/simple-dark-tpb and it's working fine, it applies even to TPB Helper settings, no need to add a theme to the script.