title: Find the next closest date in MM/DD/YYYY format JavaScript
body: <p>I have an array of dates formatted as MM/DD/YYYY. I need to find the next closest date in the future starting from today. Say today was 1/22/2016 then 2/19/2016 would return.</p>
  
  <pre><code>2/3/2015
  7/5/2015
  1/21/2016
  2/19/2016
  7/1/2016
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I've tried doing substrings to get the month, day, year separate and attempting a sort based off those values but surely there has to be a better way.  </p>