How to calculate the number of days between two dates? [duplicate]

Answer 1

Here's what I use. If you just subtract the dates, it won't work across the Daylight Savings Time Boundary (eg April 1 to April 30 or Oct 1 to Oct 31). This drops all the hours to make sure you get a day and eliminates any DST problem by using UTC.

var nDays = (    Date.UTC(EndDate.getFullYear(), EndDate.getMonth(), EndDate.getDate()) -
                 Date.UTC(StartDate.getFullYear(), StartDate.getMonth(), StartDate.getDate())) / 86400000;

as a function:

function DaysBetween(StartDate, EndDate) {
  // The number of milliseconds in all UTC days (no DST)
  const oneDay = 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24;

  // A day in UTC always lasts 24 hours (unlike in other time formats)
  const start = Date.UTC(EndDate.getFullYear(), EndDate.getMonth(), EndDate.getDate());
  const end = Date.UTC(StartDate.getFullYear(), StartDate.getMonth(), StartDate.getDate());

  // so it's safe to divide by 24 hours
  return (start - end) / oneDay;
}