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Javascript to count the number of days for a specific month between two dates [duplicate]

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I am new to javascript.
I have specific month columns (9/30/2022, 10/31/2022,11/30/2022). I have a contract with a start date and end date (spanning multiple months).
I need to determine the number of days the contract was active for a specific month column.
Example:
Contact Start Date: 09/15/2022
Contract End Date: 10/24/2022
Number of days the contract was active in Sept 2022 is 16.
I found the code below that gives me the contract period broken down for each month (i.e.) **9 - 17; 10 - 23; **
Thank you in advance for any assistance.
I found this code
function getDays() {
var dropdt = new Date(document.getElementById("arr").value);
var pickdt = new Date(document.getElementById("dep").value);
var result = "";
for (var year = dropdt.getFullYear(); year <= pickdt.getFullYear(); year++) {
var firstMonth = (year == dropdt.getFullYear()) ? dropdt.getMonth() : 0;
var lastMonth = (year == pickdt.getFullYear()) ? pickdt.getMonth() : 11;
for (var month = firstMonth; month <= lastMonth; month++) {
var firstDay = (year === dropdt.getFullYear() && month === firstMonth) ? dropdt.getDate() : 1;
var lastDay = (year === pickdt.getFullYear() && month === lastMonth) ? pickdt.getDate() : 0;
var lastDateMonth = (lastDay === 0) ? (month + 1) : month
var firstDate = new Date(year, month, firstDay);
var lastDate = new Date(year, lastDateMonth, lastDay);
result += (month + 1) + " - " + parseInt((lastDate - firstDate) / (24 * 3600 * 1000) + 1) + "; ";
}
}
return result;
}
function cal() {
if (document.getElementById("dep")) {
document.getElementById("number-of-dates").value = getDays();
}
Calculate
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The following snippet will generate an object res with the keys being zero-based month-indexes ("8" is for September, "9" for October, etc.) and the values are the number of days for each of these months:
const start=new Date("2022-09-15");
const end=new Date("2022-11-24");
let nextFirst=new Date(start.getTime()), month, days={};
do {
month=nextFirst.getMonth();
nextFirst.setMonth(month+1);nextFirst.setDate(1);
days[month]=Math.round(((nextFirst<end?nextFirst:end)-start)/86400000);
start.setTime(nextFirst.getTime());
} while(nextFirst<end)
console.log(days);
This can be extended into a more reliable function returning a year-month combination:
function daysPerMonth(start,end){
let nextFirst=new Date(start.getTime()), year, month, days={};
do {
year=nextFirst.getFullYear();
month=nextFirst.getMonth();
nextFirst.setMonth(month+1);nextFirst.setDate(1);
days[`${year}-${String(1+month).padStart(2,"0")}`]=Math.round(((nextFirst<end?nextFirst:end)-start)/86400000);
start.setTime(nextFirst.getTime());
} while(nextFirst<end)
return days;
}
[["2022-09-15","2022-11-24"],["2022-11-29","2023-02-04"]].forEach(([a,b])=>
console.log(daysPerMonth(new Date(a),new Date(b))));

Managing and calculating dates, times, and date-times are notoriously finicky in javascript and across browsers. Rather than trying to define your own logic for this use the famous Moment.js library.
In particular to calculate the length between two dates you can utilize the diff function between two moments
var a = moment([2007, 0, 29]);
var b = moment([2007, 0, 25]);
var diff = a.diff(b, 'days') // 1
console.log(diff);
<script src="https://momentjs.com/downloads/moment.js"></script>
The supported measurements are years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, and seconds.

How to calculate automatically number of days between two dates in javascript? [duplicate]

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

Assuming you have two Date objects, you can just subtract them to get the difference in milliseconds:
var difference = date2 - date1;
From there, you can use simple arithmetic to derive the other values.

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

Another solution is convert difference to a new Date object and get that date's year(diff from 1970), month, day etc.
var date1 = new Date(2010, 6, 17);
var date2 = new Date(2013, 12, 18);
var diff = new Date(date2.getTime() - date1.getTime());
// diff is: Thu Jul 05 1973 04:00:00 GMT+0300 (EEST)
console.log(diff.getUTCFullYear() - 1970); // Gives difference as year
// 3
console.log(diff.getUTCMonth()); // Gives month count of difference
// 6
console.log(diff.getUTCDate() - 1); // Gives day count of difference
// 4
So difference is like "3 years and 6 months and 4 days". If you want to take difference in a human readable style, that can help you.

Expressions like "difference in days" are never as simple as they seem. If you have the following dates:
d1: 2011-10-15 23:59:00
d1: 2011-10-16 00:01:00
the difference in time is 2 minutes, should the "difference in days" be 1 or 0? Similar issues arise for any expression of the difference in months, years or whatever since years, months and days are of different lengths and different times (e.g. the day that daylight saving starts is 1 hour shorter than usual and two hours shorter than the day that it ends).
Here is a function for a difference in days that ignores the time, i.e. for the above dates it returns 1.
/*
Get the number of days between two dates - not inclusive.
"between" does not include the start date, so days
between Thursday and Friday is one, Thursday to Saturday
is two, and so on. Between Friday and the following Friday is 7.
e.g. getDaysBetweenDates( 22-Jul-2011, 29-jul-2011) => 7.
If want inclusive dates (e.g. leave from 1/1/2011 to 30/1/2011),
use date prior to start date (i.e. 31/12/2010 to 30/1/2011).
Only calculates whole days.
Assumes d0 <= d1
*/
function getDaysBetweenDates(d0, d1) {
var msPerDay = 8.64e7;
// Copy dates so don't mess them up
var x0 = new Date(d0);
var x1 = new Date(d1);
// Set to noon - avoid DST errors
x0.setHours(12,0,0);
x1.setHours(12,0,0);
// Round to remove daylight saving errors
return Math.round( (x1 - x0) / msPerDay );
}
This can be more concise:
/* Return number of days between d0 and d1.
** Returns positive if d0 < d1, otherwise negative.
**
** e.g. between 2000-02-28 and 2001-02-28 there are 366 days
** between 2015-12-28 and 2015-12-29 there is 1 day
** between 2015-12-28 23:59:59 and 2015-12-29 00:00:01 there is 1 day
** between 2015-12-28 00:00:01 and 2015-12-28 23:59:59 there are 0 days
**
** #param {Date} d0 - start date
** #param {Date} d1 - end date
** #returns {number} - whole number of days between d0 and d1
**
*/
function daysDifference(d0, d1) {
var diff = new Date(+d1).setHours(12) - new Date(+d0).setHours(12);
return Math.round(diff/8.64e7);
}
// Simple formatter
function formatDate(date){
return [date.getFullYear(),('0'+(date.getMonth()+1)).slice(-2),('0'+date.getDate()).slice(-2)].join('-');
}
// Examples
[[new Date(2000,1,28), new Date(2001,1,28)], // Leap year
[new Date(2001,1,28), new Date(2002,1,28)], // Not leap year
[new Date(2017,0,1), new Date(2017,1,1)]
].forEach(function(dates) {
document.write('From ' + formatDate(dates[0]) + ' to ' + formatDate(dates[1]) +
' is ' + daysDifference(dates[0],dates[1]) + ' days<br>');
});

<html lang="en">
<head>
<script>
function getDateDiff(time1, time2) {
var str1= time1.split('/');
var str2= time2.split('/');
// yyyy , mm , dd
var t1 = new Date(str1[2], str1[0]-1, str1[1]);
var t2 = new Date(str2[2], str2[0]-1, str2[1]);
var diffMS = t1 - t2;
console.log(diffMS + ' ms');
var diffS = diffMS / 1000;
console.log(diffS + ' ');
var diffM = diffS / 60;
console.log(diffM + ' minutes');
var diffH = diffM / 60;
console.log(diffH + ' hours');
var diffD = diffH / 24;
console.log(diffD + ' days');
alert(diffD);
}
//alert(getDateDiff('10/18/2013','10/14/2013'));
</script>
</head>
<body>
<input type="button"
onclick="getDateDiff('10/18/2013','10/14/2013')"
value="clickHere()" />
</body>
</html>

use Moment.js for all your JavaScript related date-time calculation
Answer to your question is:
var a = moment([2007, 0, 29]);
var b = moment([2007, 0, 28]);
a.diff(b) // 86400000
Complete details can be found here

adding to #paresh mayani 's answer, to work like Facebook - showing how much time has passed in sec/min/hours/weeks/months/years
var DateDiff = {
inSeconds: function(d1, d2) {
var t2 = d2.getTime();
var t1 = d1.getTime();
return parseInt((t2-t1)/1000);
},
inMinutes: function(d1, d2) {
var t2 = d2.getTime();
var t1 = d1.getTime();
return parseInt((t2-t1)/60000);
},
inHours: function(d1, d2) {
var t2 = d2.getTime();
var t1 = d1.getTime();
return parseInt((t2-t1)/3600000);
},
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"; //will also get (Y-m-d H:i:s)
var d1 = new Date(dString);
var d2 = new Date();
var timeLaps = DateDiff.inSeconds(d1, d2);
var dateOutput = "";
if (timeLaps<60)
{
dateOutput = timeLaps+" seconds";
}
else
{
timeLaps = DateDiff.inMinutes(d1, d2);
if (timeLaps<60)
{
dateOutput = timeLaps+" minutes";
}
else
{
timeLaps = DateDiff.inHours(d1, d2);
if (timeLaps<24)
{
dateOutput = timeLaps+" hours";
}
else
{
timeLaps = DateDiff.inDays(d1, d2);
if (timeLaps<7)
{
dateOutput = timeLaps+" days";
}
else
{
timeLaps = DateDiff.inWeeks(d1, d2);
if (timeLaps<4)
{
dateOutput = timeLaps+" weeks";
}
else
{
timeLaps = DateDiff.inMonths(d1, d2);
if (timeLaps<12)
{
dateOutput = timeLaps+" months";
}
else
{
timeLaps = DateDiff.inYears(d1, d2);
dateOutput = timeLaps+" years";
}
}
}
}
}
}
alert (dateOutput);

With momentjs it's simple:
moment("2016-04-08").fromNow();

function DateDiff(date1, date2) {
date1.setHours(0);
date1.setMinutes(0, 0, 0);
date2.setHours(0);
date2.setMinutes(0, 0, 0);
var datediff = Math.abs(date1.getTime() - date2.getTime()); // difference
return parseInt(datediff / (24 * 60 * 60 * 1000), 10); //Convert values days and return value
}

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.");

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))

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

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

Sorry but flat millisecond calculation is not reliable
Thanks for all the responses, but few of the functions I tried are failing either on
1. A date near today's date
2. A date in 1970 or
3. A date in a leap year.
Approach that best worked for me and covers all scenario e.g. leap year, near date in 1970, feb 29 etc.
var someday = new Date("8/1/1985");
var today = new Date();
var years = today.getFullYear() - someday.getFullYear();
// Reset someday to the current year.
someday.setFullYear(today.getFullYear());
// Depending on when that day falls for this year, subtract 1.
if (today < someday)
{
years--;
}
document.write("Its been " + years + " full years.");

This code will return the difference between two dates in days:
const previous_date = new Date("2019-12-23");
const current_date = new Date();
const current_year = current_date.getFullYear();
const previous_date_year =
previous_date.getFullYear();
const difference_in_years = current_year -
previous_date_year;
let months = current_date.getMonth();
months = months + 1; // for making the indexing
// of months from 1
for(let i = 0; i < difference_in_years; i++){
months = months + 12;
}
let days = current_date.getDate();
days = days + (months * 30.417);
console.log(`The days between ${current_date} and
${previous_date} are : ${days} (approximately)`);

If you are using moment.js then it is pretty simple to find date difference.
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")

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"));

function daysInMonth (month, year) {
return new Date(year, month, 0).getDate();
}
function getduration(){
let A= document.getElementById("date1_id").value
let B= document.getElementById("date2_id").value
let C=Number(A.substring(3,5))
let D=Number(B.substring(3,5))
let dif=D-C
let arr=[];
let sum=0;
for (let i=0;i<dif+1;i++){
sum+=Number(daysInMonth(i+C,2019))
}
let sum_alter=0;
for (let i=0;i<dif;i++){
sum_alter+=Number(daysInMonth(i+C,2019))
}
let no_of_month=(Number(B.substring(3,5)) - Number(A.substring(3,5)))
let days=[];
if ((Number(B.substring(3,5)) - Number(A.substring(3,5)))>0||Number(B.substring(0,2)) - Number(A.substring(0,2))<0){
days=Number(B.substring(0,2)) - Number(A.substring(0,2)) + sum_alter
}
if ((Number(B.substring(3,5)) == Number(A.substring(3,5)))){
console.log(Number(B.substring(0,2)) - Number(A.substring(0,2)) + sum_alter)
}
time_1=[]; time_2=[]; let hour=[];
time_1=document.getElementById("time1_id").value
time_2=document.getElementById("time2_id").value
if (time_1.substring(0,2)=="12"){
time_1="00:00:00 PM"
}
if (time_1.substring(9,11)==time_2.substring(9,11)){
hour=Math.abs(Number(time_2.substring(0,2)) - Number(time_1.substring(0,2)))
}
if (time_1.substring(9,11)!=time_2.substring(9,11)){
hour=Math.abs(Number(time_2.substring(0,2)) - Number(time_1.substring(0,2)))+12
}
let min=Math.abs(Number(time_1.substring(3,5))-Number(time_2.substring(3,5)))
document.getElementById("duration_id").value=days +" days "+ hour+" hour " + min+" min "
}
<input type="text" id="date1_id" placeholder="28/05/2019">
<input type="text" id="date2_id" placeholder="29/06/2019">
<br><br>
<input type="text" id="time1_id" placeholder="08:01:00 AM">
<input type="text" id="time2_id" placeholder="00:00:00 PM">
<br><br>
<button class="text" onClick="getduration()">Submit </button>
<br><br>
<input type="text" id="duration_id" placeholder="days hour min">

var date1 = new Date("06/30/2019");
var date2 = new Date("07/30/2019");
// To calculate the time difference of two dates
var Difference_In_Time = date2.getTime() - date1.getTime();
// To calculate the no. of days between two dates
var Difference_In_Days = Difference_In_Time / (1000 * 3600 * 24);
//To display the final no. of days (result)
document.write("Total number of days between dates <br>"
+ date1 + "<br> and <br>"
+ date2 + " is: <br> "
+ Difference_In_Days);

this should work just fine if you just need to show what time left, since JavaScript uses frames for its time you'll have get your End Time - The Time RN after that we can divide it by 1000 since apparently 1000 frames = 1 seconds, after that you can use the basic math of time, but there's still a problem to this code, since the calculation is static, it can't compensate for the different day total in a year (360/365/366), the bunch of IF after the calculation is to make it null if the time is lower than 0, hope this helps even though it's not exactly what you're asking :)
var now = new Date();
var end = new Date("End Time");
var total = (end - now) ;
var totalD = Math.abs(Math.floor(total/1000));
var years = Math.floor(totalD / (365*60*60*24));
var months = Math.floor((totalD - years*365*60*60*24) / (30*60*60*24));
var days = Math.floor((totalD - years*365*60*60*24 - months*30*60*60*24)/ (60*60*24));
var hours = Math.floor((totalD - years*365*60*60*24 - months*30*60*60*24 - days*60*60*24)/ (60*60));
var minutes = Math.floor((totalD - years*365*60*60*24 - months*30*60*60*24 - days*60*60*24 - hours*60*60)/ (60));
var seconds = Math.floor(totalD - years*365*60*60*24 - months*30*60*60*24 - days*60*60*24 - hours*60*60 - minutes*60);
var Y = years < 1 ? "" : years + " Years ";
var M = months < 1 ? "" : months + " Months ";
var D = days < 1 ? "" : days + " Days ";
var H = hours < 1 ? "" : hours + " Hours ";
var I = minutes < 1 ? "" : minutes + " Minutes ";
var S = seconds < 1 ? "" : seconds + " Seconds ";
var A = years == 0 && months == 0 && days == 0 && hours == 0 && minutes == 0 && seconds == 0 ? "Sending" : " Remaining";
document.getElementById('txt').innerHTML = Y + M + D + H + I + S + A;

Ok, there are a bunch of ways you can do that.
Yes, you can use plain old JS. Just try:
let dt1 = new Date()
let dt2 = new Date()
Let's emulate passage using Date.prototype.setMinutes and make sure we are in range.
dt1.setMinutes(7)
dt2.setMinutes(42)
console.log('Elapsed seconds:',(dt2-dt1)/1000)
Alternatively you could use some library like js-joda, where you can easily do things like this (directly from docs):
var dt1 = LocalDateTime.parse("2016-02-26T23:55:42.123");
var dt2 = dt1
.plusYears(6)
.plusMonths(12)
.plusHours(2)
.plusMinutes(42)
.plusSeconds(12);
// obtain the duration between the two dates
dt1.until(dt2, ChronoUnit.YEARS); // 7
dt1.until(dt2, ChronoUnit.MONTHS); // 84
dt1.until(dt2, ChronoUnit.WEEKS); // 356
dt1.until(dt2, ChronoUnit.DAYS); // 2557
dt1.until(dt2, ChronoUnit.HOURS); // 61370
dt1.until(dt2, ChronoUnit.MINUTES); // 3682242
dt1.until(dt2, ChronoUnit.SECONDS); // 220934532
There are plenty more libraries ofc, but js-joda has an added bonus of being available also in Java, where it has been extensively tested. All those tests have been migrated to js-joda, it's also immutable.

I made a below function to get the difference between now and "2021-02-26T21:50:42.123".
The difference return answer as milliseconds, so I convert it by using this formula:
(1000 * 3600 * 24).
function getDiff(dateAcquired) {
let calDiff = Math.floor(
(new Date() - new Date(dateAcquired)) / (1000 * 3600 * 24)
);
return calDiff;
}
console.log(getDiff("2021-02-26T21:50:42.123"));

Can be useful :
const date_diff = (date1, date2) => Math.ceil(Math.abs(date1 - date2)/24 * 60 * 60 * 1000)
or
const date_diff = (date1, date2) => Math.ceil(Math.abs(date1 - date2)/86400000)
where 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000 is (day * minutes * seconds * milliseconds) = 86400000 milliseconds in one day
Thank you

// the idea is to get time left for new year.
// Not considering milliseconds as of now, but that
// can be done
var newYear = '1 Jan 2023';
const secondsInAMin = 60;
const secondsInAnHour = 60 * secondsInAMin;
const secondsInADay = 24 * secondsInAnHour;
function DateDiffJs() {
var newYearDate = new Date(newYear);
var currDate = new Date();
var remainingSecondsInDateDiff = (newYearDate - currDate) / 1000;
var days = Math.floor(remainingSecondsInDateDiff / secondsInADay);
var remainingSecondsAfterDays = remainingSecondsInDateDiff - (days * secondsInADay);
var hours = Math.floor(remainingSecondsAfterDays / secondsInAnHour);
var remainingSecondsAfterhours = remainingSecondsAfterDays - (hours * secondsInAnHour);
var mins = Math.floor(remainingSecondsAfterhours / secondsInAMin);
var seconds = Math.floor(remainingSecondsAfterhours - (mins * secondsInAMin));
console.log(`days :: ${days}`)
console.log(`hours :: ${hours}`)
console.log(`mins :: ${mins}`)
console.log(`seconds :: ${seconds}`)
}
DateDiffJs();

Why its not giving me the correct total month?

Why it's not giving me the correct total month? (with compared to current mm-yyyy)
function get_total_month(mm,yyyy) {
// custom inputs
var start_date = new Date(yyyy, mm, 01);
// current date
var today_date = new Date();
var today_year = today_date.getFullYear();
var today_month = today_date.getMonth();
var today_day = today_date.getDate();
var end_date = new Date(new Date(today_year, today_month, today_day));
// compare the given date with current date to find the total months
var total_months = (end_date.getFullYear() - start_date.getFullYear())*12 + (end_date.getMonth() - start_date.getMonth());
return total_months;
}
alert(
get_total_month(01, 2014)
);
Giving me: 20 instead of 22

That's because the Date.prototype.getMonth method returns a 0-11 number. So:
January = 0
February = 1
...
December = 11

I think this is what you are looking for, it is another version of your code. But I think is shorter and easier to understand. What do you think?
(I added the +2 to adjust the result to what you are expecting the function to return)
function monthDifference(startDate) {
var months;
var currentDate = new Date();
months = (currentDate.getFullYear() - startDate.getFullYear()) * 12;
months -= startDate.getMonth() + 1;
months += currentDate.getMonth();
return months <= 0 ? 0 : (months + 2);
}
alert(monthDifference(new Date(2014,0)) );
alert(monthDifference(new Date(2013,11)) );

Return true if bdays is today or in range of next 7 days

I tried not to use in project any vendor libraries (excluding jquery) and faced a problem with checking who has a birthday today or in next 7 day
Is it quite easy to get who has bday today, but what is the condition for future days?
add_days: (date, days)->
console.log "Old date", date.getDate()
new_date = new Date()
new_date.setTime(date + (days * (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24)))
console.log "New date", date.getDate()
return new_date
bday_in_days: (bday, last_name)->
today = new Date()
today_day = Number today.getDate()
today_month = Number today.getMonth() + 1
today_year = Number today.getFullYear()
bday_gen_splitter = bday?.split(".")
bday_gen_day = Number bday_gen_splitter?[0]
bday_gen_month = Number bday_gen_splitter?[1]
bday_gen_year = Number bday_gen_splitter?[2]
bday_gen_year = today_year unless bday_gen_year
bday_gen_date = new Date("#{bday_gen_year}-#{bday_gen_month}-#{bday_gen_day}")
bday_day = Number bday_gen_date.getDate()
bday_month = Number bday_gen_date.getMonth() + 1
#add_days(bday_gen_date, 2)
cond_today = bday_day == today_day && bday_month == today_month
cond_tomorrow = bday_day == today_day - 1 && bday_month == today_month
return cond_today || cond_tomorrow

The javacsript Date object has some useful method, such as getDate() and setDate(). My idea is to use this methods to define a new Date instance 7 days in the future. like var futureDay = new Date(); futureDay.setDate(futureDay.getDate() + 7). This approach avoid having to deal with the months's end, it will automatically go to the next month if you increment its last day (30/31).
Another useful method is the getTime(). This will retrieve the time in miliseconds so you can use it to compare the current and the future dates with an arbitrary given date.
See the code below as a complete example. I hope it helps!
<script>
function isValidBDay(day, month){
var daysInTheFuture = 7;
var today = new Date();
today.setHours(0);
today.setMinutes(0);
today.setSeconds(0);
today.setMilliseconds(0);
var futureDay = new Date();
futureDay.setDate(futureDay.getDate() + daysInTheFuture);
var givenDay = new Date();
givenDay.setDate(day);
givenDay.setMonth(month - 1); // starts from 0
return givenDay.getTime() >= today.getTime() && givenDay.getTime() <= futureDay.getTime();
}
alert(isValidBDay(7, 8)); // true since today is 31/07
alert(isValidBDay(7, 12));// false;
</script>

JavaScript: how to pass date values to function

I came across the following function which is used to calculate the difference between two dates in business days, i.e. by eliminating standard weekends / Saturdays and Sunday (source: http://partialclass.blogspot.ie/2011/07/calculating-working-days-between-two.html):
function workingDaysBetweenDates(startDate, endDate)
{
if (endDate < startDate)
return 0;
var millisecondsPerDay = 86400 * 1000;
startDate.setHours(0,0,0,1);
endDate.setHours(23,59,59,999);
var diff = endDate - startDate;
var days = Math.ceil(diff / millisecondsPerDay);
var weeks = Math.floor(days / 7);
var days = days - (weeks * 2);
var startDay = startDate.getDay();
var endDay = endDate.getDay();
if (startDay - endDay > 1)
days = days - 2;
if (startDay == 0 && endDay != 6)
days = days - 1
if (endDay == 6 && startDay != 0)
days = days - 1
return days;
alert(days);
}
Can someone tell me how I can pass two dates to call this function ?
My dates would be variables in the format YYYY-MM-DD.
Many thanks for any help with this, Tim

say
var startDate = "2014-05-22";
var endDate = "2014-06-22";
you can call the function like this
workingDaysBetweenDates(new Date(startDate),new Date(endDate));

let startDate = new Date("2014-05-22") ;
let endDate = new Date("2014-06-22") ;
displayDate(startDate,endDate){
// Your content
}