Get the time difference between two datetimes

Question

I know I can do anything and some more envolving Dates with momentjs. But embarrassingly, I\'m having a hard time trying to do something that seems simple: geting the differ

Answer 1

If you want difference of two timestamp into total days,hours and minutes only, not in months and years .

var now  = "01/08/2016 15:00:00";
var then = "04/02/2016 14:20:30";
var diff = moment.duration(moment(then).diff(moment(now)));

diff contains 2 months,23 days,23 hours and 20 minutes. But we need result only in days,hours and minutes so the simple solution is:

var days = parseInt(diff.asDays()); //84

var hours = parseInt(diff.asHours()); //2039 hours, but it gives total hours in given miliseconds which is not expacted.

hours = hours - days*24;  // 23 hours

var minutes = parseInt(diff.asMinutes()); //122360 minutes,but it gives total minutes in given miliseconds which is not expacted.

minutes = minutes - (days*24*60 + hours*60); //20 minutes.

Final result will be : 84 days, 23 hours, 20 minutes.

Answer 2

DATE TIME BASED INPUT

    var dt1 = new Date("2019-1-8 11:19:16");
    var dt2 = new Date("2019-1-8 11:24:16");


    var diff =(dt2.getTime() - dt1.getTime()) ;
    var hours = Math.floor(diff / (1000 * 60 * 60));
    diff -= hours * (1000 * 60 * 60);
    var mins = Math.floor(diff / (1000 * 60));
    diff -= mins * (1000 * 60);


    var response = {
        status : 200,
        Hour : hours,
        Mins : mins
    }

OUTPUT

{
"status": 200,
"Hour": 0,
"Mins": 5
}

Answer 3

If you want a localized number of days between two dates (startDate, endDate):

var currentLocaleData = moment.localeData("en");
var duration = moment.duration(endDate.diff(startDate));
var nbDays = Math.floor(duration.asDays()); // complete days
var nbDaysStr = currentLocaleData.relativeTime(returnVal.days, false, "dd", false);

nbDaysStr will contain something like '3 days';

See https://momentjs.com/docs/#/i18n/changing-locale/ for information on how to display the amount of hours or month, for example.

Answer 4

Your problem is in passing the result of moment.duration() back into moment() before formatting it; this results in moment() interpreting it as a time relative to the Unix epoch.

It doesn't give you exactly the format you're looking for, but

moment.duration(now.diff(then)).humanize()

would give you a useful format like "40 minutes". If you're really keen on that specific formatting, you'll have to build a new string yourself. A cheap way would be

[diff.asHours(), diff.minutes(), diff.seconds()].join(':')

where var diff = moment.duration(now.diff(then)). This doesn't give you the zero-padding on single digit values. For that, you might want to consider something like underscore.string - although it seems like a long way to go just for a few extra zeroes. :)

Answer 5

This approach will work ONLY when the total duration is less than 24 hours:

var now  = "04/09/2013 15:00:00";
var then = "04/09/2013 14:20:30";

moment.utc(moment(now,"DD/MM/YYYY HH:mm:ss").diff(moment(then,"DD/MM/YYYY HH:mm:ss"))).format("HH:mm:ss")

// outputs: "00:39:30"

If you have 24 hours or more, the hours will reset to zero with the above approach, so it is not ideal.

If you want to get a valid response for durations of 24 hours or greater, then you'll have to do something like this instead:

var now  = "04/09/2013 15:00:00";
var then = "02/09/2013 14:20:30";

var ms = moment(now,"DD/MM/YYYY HH:mm:ss").diff(moment(then,"DD/MM/YYYY HH:mm:ss"));
var d = moment.duration(ms);
var s = Math.floor(d.asHours()) + moment.utc(ms).format(":mm:ss");

// outputs: "48:39:30"

Note that I'm using the utc time as a shortcut. You could pull out d.minutes() and d.seconds() separately, but you would also have to zeropad them.

This is necessary because the ability to format a duration objection is not currently in moment.js. It has been requested here. However, there is a third-party plugin called moment-duration-format that is specifically for this purpose:

var now  = "04/09/2013 15:00:00";
var then = "02/09/2013 14:20:30";

var ms = moment(now,"DD/MM/YYYY HH:mm:ss").diff(moment(then,"DD/MM/YYYY HH:mm:ss"));
var d = moment.duration(ms);
var s = d.format("hh:mm:ss");

// outputs: "48:39:30"

Answer 6

I create a simple function with typescript

const diffDuration: moment.Duration = moment.duration(moment('2017-09-04 12:55').diff(moment('2017-09-02 13:26')));
setDiffTimeString(diffDuration);

function setDiffTimeString(diffDuration: moment.Duration) {
  const str = [];
  diffDuration.years() > 0 ? str.push(`${diffDuration.years()} year(s)`) : null;
  diffDuration.months() > 0 ? str.push(`${diffDuration.months()} month(s)`) : null;
  diffDuration.days() > 0 ? str.push(`${diffDuration.days()} day(s)`) : null;
  diffDuration.hours() > 0 ? str.push(`${diffDuration.hours()} hour(s)`) : null;
  diffDuration.minutes() > 0 ? str.push(`${diffDuration.minutes()} minute(s)`) : null;
  console.log(str.join(', '));
} 
// output: 1 day(s), 23 hour(s), 29 minute(s)

for generate javascript https://www.typescriptlang.org/play/index.html