title: kendo ui grid date sorting is not working
body: <p>I am trying to sort my data on desc date order but I can't, I keep getting an asc ordering on my kendo ui grid, here is the code.</p>
  
  <pre><code>this.gridConfig = {
          dataSource: {
              transport: {
                  read: '/api/endpoint,
                  dataType: 'json'
              },
              schema: {
                  data: "my_data_var"
              }
          },
          sort: { field: "date", dir: "desc"},
          resizable: true,
          filterable: true,
          pageable: {
              pageSize: 200
          },
          columns: [{
              field: 'date',
              title: 'Date',
              template: "#= kendo.toString(kendo.parseDate(date, 'yyyy-MM-dd'), 'dd/MMM/yyyy') #"
  </code></pre>