How to calculate date difference in JavaScript?

Question

I want to calculate date difference in days, hours, minutes, seconds, milliseconds, nanoseconds. How can I do it?

Answer 1

based on javascript runtime prototype implementation you can use simple arithmetic to subtract dates as in bellow

var sep = new Date(2020, 07, 31, 23, 59, 59);
var today = new Date();
var diffD = Math.floor((sep - today) / (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24));
console.log('Day Diff: '+diffD);

the difference return answer as milliseconds, then you have to convert it by division:

• by 1000 to convert to second
• by 1000×60 convert to minute
• by 1000×60×60 convert to hour
• by 1000×60×60×24 convert to day

Answer 2

var DateDiff = {

    inDays: function(d1, d2) {
        var t2 = d2.getTime();
        var t1 = d1.getTime();

        return parseInt((t2-t1)/(24*3600*1000));
    },

    inWeeks: function(d1, d2) {
        var t2 = d2.getTime();
        var t1 = d1.getTime();

        return parseInt((t2-t1)/(24*3600*1000*7));
    },

    inMonths: function(d1, d2) {
        var d1Y = d1.getFullYear();
        var d2Y = d2.getFullYear();
        var d1M = d1.getMonth();
        var d2M = d2.getMonth();

        return (d2M+12*d2Y)-(d1M+12*d1Y);
    },

    inYears: function(d1, d2) {
        return d2.getFullYear()-d1.getFullYear();
    }
}

var dString = "May, 20, 1984";

var d1 = new Date(dString);
var d2 = new Date();

document.write("<br />Number of <b>days</b> since "+dString+": "+DateDiff.inDays(d1, d2));
document.write("<br />Number of <b>weeks</b> since "+dString+": "+DateDiff.inWeeks(d1, d2));
document.write("<br />Number of <b>months</b> since "+dString+": "+DateDiff.inMonths(d1, d2));
document.write("<br />Number of <b>years</b> since "+dString+": "+DateDiff.inYears(d1, d2));

Code sample taken from here.

Answer 3

var d1=new Date(2011,0,1); // jan,1 2011
var d2=new Date(); // now

var diff=d2-d1,sign=diff<0?-1:1,milliseconds,seconds,minutes,hours,days;
diff/=sign; // or diff=Math.abs(diff);
diff=(diff-(milliseconds=diff%1000))/1000;
diff=(diff-(seconds=diff%60))/60;
diff=(diff-(minutes=diff%60))/60;
days=(diff-(hours=diff%24))/24;

console.info(sign===1?"Elapsed: ":"Remains: ",
             days+" days, ",
             hours+" hours, ",
             minutes+" minutes, ",
             seconds+" seconds, ",
             milliseconds+" milliseconds.");

Answer 4

I think this should do it.

let today = new Date();
let form_date=new Date('2019-10-23')
let difference=form_date>today ? form_date-today : today-form_date
let diff_days=Math.floor(difference/(1000*3600*24))

Answer 5

function DateDiff(b, e)
{
    let
        endYear = e.getFullYear(),
        endMonth = e.getMonth(),
        years = endYear - b.getFullYear(),
        months = endMonth - b.getMonth(),
        days = e.getDate() - b.getDate();
    if (months < 0)
    {
        years--;
        months += 12;
    }
    if (days < 0)
    {
        months--;
        days += new Date(endYear, endMonth, 0).getDate();
    }
    return [years, months, days];
}

[years, months, days] = DateDiff(
    new Date("October 21, 1980"),
    new Date("July 11, 2017")); // 36 8 20

Answer 6

This is how you can implement difference between dates without a framework.

function getDateDiff(dateOne, dateTwo) {
        if(dateOne.charAt(2)=='-' & dateTwo.charAt(2)=='-'){
            dateOne = new Date(formatDate(dateOne));
            dateTwo = new Date(formatDate(dateTwo));
        }
        else{
            dateOne = new Date(dateOne);
            dateTwo = new Date(dateTwo);            
        }
        let timeDiff = Math.abs(dateOne.getTime() - dateTwo.getTime());
        let diffDays = Math.ceil(timeDiff / (1000 * 3600 * 24));
        let diffMonths = Math.ceil(diffDays/31);
        let diffYears = Math.ceil(diffMonths/12);

        let message = "Difference in Days: " + diffDays + " " +
                      "Difference in Months: " + diffMonths+ " " + 
                      "Difference in Years: " + diffYears;
        return message;
     }

    function formatDate(date) {
         return date.split('-').reverse().join('-');
    }

    console.log(getDateDiff("23-04-2017", "23-04-2018"));