Parse String to Organize By Row with PHP

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This is probably something easy to accomplish. I have some dates in my MySQL database, (and I am using PHP). Some are stored as such \[code\]2010-08-25 11:00:00\[/code\], while others are stored as \[code\]2010-08-25T08:00:00\[/code\]My question is: I am selecting the dates from the database, and then using \[code\]ORDER BY start_date\[/code\]However, I have noticed that when the date string includes a "T", it is pushing it down in the order. For example, my dates being returned are: \[code\] 2010-08-25 11:00:00 2010-08-25 14:15:00 2010-08-25T08:00:00 2010-08-25T14:30:00 2010-08-25T15:00:00\[/code\]As you can see, events at 8am are showing up after events at 2:15pm.Any ideas on how I can re-arrange it so that the 8am events are moved toward the top?Thanks.