Difference in Months between two dates in JavaScript

Question

How would I work out the difference for two Date() objects in JavaScript, while only return the number of months in the difference?

Any help would be great :)

Answer 1

Following code returns full months between two dates by taking nr of days of partial months into account as well.

var monthDiff = function(d1, d2) {
  if( d2 < d1 ) { 
    var dTmp = d2;
    d2 = d1;
    d1 = dTmp;
  }

  var months = (d2.getFullYear() - d1.getFullYear()) * 12;
  months -= d1.getMonth() + 1;
  months += d2.getMonth();

  if( d1.getDate() <= d2.getDate() ) months += 1;

  return months;
}

monthDiff(new Date(2015, 01, 20), new Date(2015, 02, 20))
> 1

monthDiff(new Date(2015, 01, 20), new Date(2015, 02, 19))
> 0

monthDiff(new Date(2015, 01, 20), new Date(2015, 01, 22))
> 0