title: How to compare Date Time Strings format: (YYYY-MM-DD XX:YY) in javascript
body: <p>I have a array of these date Times. They are provided as strings. I need to be able to isolate the min dateTime and the max dateTime of the provided array but I am having trouble figuring out how I can do this? 
  Is it possible to feed each string to -> new Date(dateTime) and then compare the two objects that way? 
  Or do I have to parse then compare the date and compare time separately?  </p>
  
  <p>example values: </p>
  
  <pre><code>  4: "2018-11-15 00:16"
    5: "2018-11-15 00:52"
    6: "2018-11-15 02:24"
    7: "2018-11-15 03:02"
    8: "2018-11-15 02:49"
    9: "2018-11-15 00:14"
    10: "2018-11-15 02:20"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>In this example I would need to isolate 9 as the min and 7 as the max value in the array</p>