How to add 30 minutes to a JavaScript Date object?

Question

I\'d like to get a Date object which is 30 minutes later than another Date object. How do I do it with JavaScript?

Answer 1

Use an existing library known to handle the quirks involved in dealing with time calculations. My current favorite is moment.js.

<script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/moment.js/2.13.0/moment.js"></script>
<script>
 var now = moment(); // get "now"
 console.log(now.toDate()); // show original date
 var thirty = moment(now).add(30,"minutes"); // clone "now" object and add 30 minutes, taking into account weirdness like crossing DST boundries or leap-days, -minutes, -seconds.
 console.log(thirty.toDate()); // show new date
</script>

Answer 2

I know that the topic is way too old. But I am pretty sure that there are some developpers who still need this, so I made this simple script for you. I hope you enjoy it!

Hello back, It's 2020 and I've added some modification hope it will help a lot better now!

function strtotime(date, addTime){
  let generatedTime=date.getTime();
  if(addTime.seconds) generatedTime+=1000*addTime.seconds; //check for additional seconds 
  if(addTime.minutes) generatedTime+=1000*60*addTime.minutes;//check for additional minutes 
  if(addTime.hours) generatedTime+=1000*60*60*addTime.hours;//check for additional hours 
  return new Date(generatedTime);
}

Date.prototype.strtotime = function(addTime){
  return strtotime(new Date(), addTime); 
}

let futureDate = new Date().strtotime({
    hours: 16, //Adding one hour
    minutes: 45, //Adding fourty five minutes
    seconds: 0 //Adding 0 seconds return to not adding any second so  we can remove it.
});

<button onclick="console.log(futureDate)">Travel to the future</button>

Answer 3

Here is my one-liner:

console.log('time: ', new Date(new Date().valueOf() + 60000))

Answer 4

Just another option, which I wrote:

DP_DateExtensions Library

It's overkill if this is all the date processing that you need, but it will do what you want.

Supports date/time formatting, date math (add/subtract date parts), date compare, date parsing, etc. It's liberally open sourced.

Answer 5

I always create 7 functions, to work with date in JS:
addSeconds, addMinutes, addHours, addDays, addWeeks, addMonths, addYears.

You can see an example here: http://jsfiddle.net/tiagoajacobi/YHA8x/

How to use:

var now = new Date();
console.log(now.addMinutes(30));
console.log(now.addWeeks(3));

These are the functions:

Date.prototype.addSeconds = function(seconds) {
  this.setSeconds(this.getSeconds() + seconds);
  return this;
};

Date.prototype.addMinutes = function(minutes) {
  this.setMinutes(this.getMinutes() + minutes);
  return this;
};

Date.prototype.addHours = function(hours) {
  this.setHours(this.getHours() + hours);
  return this;
};

Date.prototype.addDays = function(days) {
  this.setDate(this.getDate() + days);
  return this;
};

Date.prototype.addWeeks = function(weeks) {
  this.addDays(weeks*7);
  return this;
};

Date.prototype.addMonths = function (months) {
  var dt = this.getDate();
  this.setMonth(this.getMonth() + months);
  var currDt = this.getDate();
  if (dt !== currDt) {  
    this.addDays(-currDt);
  }
  return this;
};

Date.prototype.addYears = function(years) {
  var dt = this.getDate();
  this.setFullYear(this.getFullYear() + years);
  var currDt = this.getDate();
  if (dt !== currDt) {  
    this.addDays(-currDt);
  }
  return this;
};

Answer 6

Here is the IsoString version:

console.log(new Date(new Date().setMinutes(new Date().getMinutes() - (30))).toISOString());