_.min
and _.max
work on arrays of dates; use those if you're using Lodash or Underscore, and consider using Lodash (which provides many utility functions like these) if you're not already.
For example,
_.min([
new Date('2015-05-08T00:07:19Z'),
new Date('2015-04-08T00:07:19Z'),
new Date('2015-06-08T00:07:19Z')
])
will return the second date in the array (because it is the earliest).