Check time difference in Javascript

Question

How would you check time difference from two text-boxes in Javascript?

Answer 1

This function returns a string with the difference from a datetime string and the current datetime.

function get_time_diff( datetime )
{
    var datetime = typeof datetime !== 'undefined' ? datetime : "2014-01-01 01:02:03.123456";

    var datetime = new Date( datetime ).getTime();
    var now = new Date().getTime();

    if( isNaN(datetime) )
    {
        return "";
    }

    console.log( datetime + " " + now);

    if (datetime < now) {
        var milisec_diff = now - datetime;
    }else{
        var milisec_diff = datetime - now;
    }

    var days = Math.floor(milisec_diff / 1000 / 60 / (60 * 24));

    var date_diff = new Date( milisec_diff );

    return days + " Days "+ date_diff.getHours() + " Hours " + date_diff.getMinutes() + " Minutes " + date_diff.getSeconds() + " Seconds";
}

Tested in the Google Chrome console (press F12)

get_time_diff()
1388534523123 1375877555722
"146 Days 12 Hours 49 Minutes 27 Seconds"

Answer 2

I have done some enhancements for timer counter

//example return : 01:23:02:02
//               : 1 Day 01:23:02:02
//               : 2 Days 01:23:02:02 


function get_timeDifference(strtdatetime) {
    var datetime = new Date(strtdatetime).getTime();
    var now = new Date().getTime();

    if (isNaN(datetime)) {
        return "";
    }

    //console.log(datetime + " " + now);

    if (datetime < now) {
        var milisec_diff = now - datetime;
    } else {
        var milisec_diff = datetime - now;
    }

    var days = Math.floor(milisec_diff / 1000 / 60 / (60 * 24));

    var date_diff = new Date(milisec_diff);





    var msec = milisec_diff;
    var hh = Math.floor(msec / 1000 / 60 / 60);
    msec -= hh * 1000 * 60 * 60;
    var mm = Math.floor(msec / 1000 / 60);
    msec -= mm * 1000 * 60;
    var ss = Math.floor(msec / 1000);
    msec -= ss * 1000


    var daylabel = "";
    if (days > 0) {
        var grammar = " ";
        if (days > 1) grammar = "s " 
        var hrreset = days * 24;
        hh = hh - hrreset;
        daylabel = days + " Day" + grammar ;
    }


    //  Format Hours
    var hourtext = '00';
    hourtext = String(hh);
    if (hourtext.length == 1) { hourtext = '0' + hourtext };

    //  Format Minutes
    var mintext = '00';
    mintext = String(mm); 
    if (mintext.length == 1) { mintext = '0' + mintext };

    //  Format Seconds
    var sectext = '00';
    sectext = String(ss); 
    if (sectext.length == 1) { sectext = '0' + sectext };

    var msectext = '00';
    msectext = String(msec);
    msectext = msectext.substring(0, 1);
    if (msectext.length == 1) { msectext = '0' + msectext };

    return daylabel + hourtext + ":" + mintext + ":" + sectext + ":" + msectext;
}

Answer 3

In my case, I'm gonna store the time in milliseconds on chrome storage and try to find diff in hours later.

function timeDiffInHours(milliseconds){
    time_diff = (new Date).getTime() - milliseconds
    return parseInt((time_diff/(1000*60*60)) % 24)
}

// This is again sending current time and diff would be 0.
timeDiffInHours((new Date).getTime());  

Answer 4

You can set your custom difference by inserting values in end and updatedAt

getDifference(theDate: string): string {
let end = moment(moment(moment()).valueOf());
let updatedAt = moment(new Date(theDate).valueOf());
let diff = end.diff(updatedAt, "hour", false);
if (diff > 8760) {
  diff = end.diff(updatedAt, "years", false);
  return diff > 1 ? diff + " years ago" : diff + " year ago";
} else if (diff > 730) {
  diff = end.diff(updatedAt, "months", false);
  return diff > 1 ? diff + " months ago" : diff + " month ago";
} else if (diff > 24) {
  diff = end.diff(updatedAt, "days", false);
  return diff > 1 ? diff + " days ago" : diff + " day ago";
} else if (diff <= 0) {
  diff = end.diff(updatedAt, "minutes", false);
  return diff > 1 ? diff + " minutes ago" : diff + " minute ago";
} else return diff > 1 ? diff + " hours ago" : diff + " hour ago";

}

Answer 5

var moment = require("moment");
var momentDurationFormatSetup = require("moment-duration-format")

var now  = "2015-07-16T16:33:39.113Z";
var then = "2015-06-16T22:33:39.113Z";

var ms = moment(now,"YYYY-MM-DD'T'HH:mm:ss:SSSZ").diff(moment(then,"YYYY-MM-DD'T'HH:mm:ss:SSSZ"));
var d = moment.duration(ms);
var s = d.format("dd:hh:mm:ss");
console.log(s);

Answer 6

Improvise. Subtract JavaScript Date objects to get their difference:

// use a constant date (e.g. 2000-01-01) and the desired time to initialize two dates

var date1 = new Date(2000, 0, 1,  9, 0); // 9:00 AM
var date2 = new Date(2000, 0, 1, 17, 0); // 5:00 PM

// the following is to handle cases where the times are on the opposite side of
// midnight e.g. when you want to get the difference between 9:00 PM and 5:00 AM

if (date2 < date1) {
    date2.setDate(date2.getDate() + 1);
}

var diff = date2 - date1;

// 28800000 milliseconds (8 hours)

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You can then convert milliseconds to hour, minute and seconds like this:

var msec = diff;
var hh = Math.floor(msec / 1000 / 60 / 60);
msec -= hh * 1000 * 60 * 60;
var mm = Math.floor(msec / 1000 / 60);
msec -= mm * 1000 * 60;
var ss = Math.floor(msec / 1000);
msec -= ss * 1000;
// diff = 28800000 => hh = 8, mm = 0, ss = 0, msec = 0

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You can convert time as string to 24-hour format like this:

function parseTime(s) {
    var part = s.match(/(\d+):(\d+)(?: )?(am|pm)?/i);
    var hh = parseInt(part[1], 10);
    var mm = parseInt(part[2], 10);
    var ap = part[3] ? part[3].toUpperCase() : null;
    if (ap === "AM") {
        if (hh == 12) {
            hh = 0;
        }
    }
    if (ap === "PM") {
        if (hh != 12) {
            hh += 12;
        }
    }
    return { hh: hh, mm: mm };
}
parseTime("12:00 AM"); // {hh:  0, mm: 0}
parseTime("12:00 PM"); // {hh: 12, mm: 0}
parseTime("01:00 PM"); // {hh: 13, mm: 0}
parseTime("23:00");    // {hh: 23, mm: 0}