order by date

hi..
I want to order my values by month.

I tested this, but it's not correct:
can anybody help me?

CURSOR cdate IS
SELECT name, datum
FROM feiertage
ORDER BY to_date(datum,'MM.DD.YYYY') ASC;
.
.

htp.TableData(TO_CHAR(crec.datum,'DD.MM.YYYY'));
.
.
Received on Tue Jul 27 1999 - 04:27:04 CDT