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Here's the code that I have right now:
const moment = require('moment')
const m = moment
const currDay = m().format('D')
const dayOfWeek = m().format('dddd')
const daysInMonth = m().daysInMonth()
const startOfMonth = moment().startOf('month').format('YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm');
const endOfMonth = moment().endOf('month').format('YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm');
I need to create a calendar row where the first item would be the todays date, and the rest of the calendar items would be the whatever amount of days are left depending on the current month so I could render each day in between in my HTML with Vue.
Example: Wed 8, Thu 9, Fri 10 ... Fri 31.
I think the OP is tripped up on the common mistake of formatting prematurely. format is good to see an intermediate result, but doing so produces a string that's no good for additional calculation.
Try to handle date objects only. Convert to strings only when you must: (a) presenting to a human reader, or (b) serializing for storage or transmission.
Working without formatting...
const daysRemainingThisMonth = moment().endOf('month').diff(moment(), 'days');
console.log(`There are ${daysRemainingThisMonth} days remaining this month`)
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/moment.js/2.29.1/moment.min.js"></script>
Just as a POJS equivalent, if you have a function to return the last day of the month, you can use that and just get the difference between the two dates, e.g.
function getMonthEnd(date = new Date()) {
return new Date(date.getFullYear(), date.getMonth() + 1, 0);
}
function getMonthDaysLeft(date = new Date()) {
return getMonthEnd(date).getDate() - date.getDate();
}
let d = new Date();
console.log(`There are ${getMonthDaysLeft(d)} days left in ${d.toLocaleString('en',{month:'long'})}.`);
To get a list/array of the days remaining, just loop over a date, adding 1 day at a time, and write the dates in the required format into the list:
function getMonthDaysLeftAsList(date = new Date()) {
let d = new Date(+date);
// Formatter
let f = new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en',{
day: 'numeric',
month: 'short'
});
let m = d.getMonth();
let dayList = [];
while (d.getMonth() == m) {
dayList.push(f.format(d));
d.setDate(d.getDate() + 1);
}
return dayList;
}
console.log(getMonthDaysLeftAsList());
I want to find out if the current UTC time is at least 12 hours bigger than the given UTC time. The given UTC time always consists of UTCyear, UTCmonth, UTCdate, UTChour and UTCminute.
I have tried it with the code provided in the answer from the user Titulum, but it's not always working. For example, the code is not working in this case:
function isOlderThan12Hours(dateToCheck)
{
return Date.now() - dateToCheck > 43200;
}
const year = 2020;
const month = 3; // April
const date = 17;
const hour = 11;
const minute = 39;
const valuesAsDate = new Date(`${year}-${month+1}-${date}T${hour}:${minute}:00.000Z`);
In this case, valuesAsDate is "Invalid Date".
How can I find out if the current UTC time is at least 12 hours bigger than the given UTC time?
function isOlderThan12Hours(dateToCheck) {
return Date.now() - dateToCheck > 43200;
}
const year = 2019;
const month = 11; // December
const date = 31;
const hour = 16;
const minute = 40;
const valuesAsDate = new Date(year, month, date, hour, minute);
console.log(isOlderThan12Hours(valuesAsDate));
Does anybody know of a simple way of taking a date (e.g. Today) and going back X days, X months and X years?
I have tried that:
var date = new Date();
$("#searchDateFrom").val((date.getMonth() -1 ) + '/' + (date.getDate() - 6) + '/' + (date.getFullYear() - 1));
But I got a negative date, for example today the output was:
3/-3/2015
Any advise?
Thanks.
You are simply reducing the values from a number. So substracting 6 from 3 (date) will return -3 only.
You need to individually add/remove unit of time in date object
var date = new Date();
date.setDate( date.getDate() - 6 );
date.setFullYear( date.getFullYear() - 1 );
$("#searchDateFrom").val((date.getMonth() ) + '/' + (date.getDate()) + '/' + (date.getFullYear()));
As others have said you're subtracting from the numeric values returned from methods like date.getDate(), you need to reset those values on your date variable. I've created a method below that will do this for you. It creates a date using new Date() which will initialize with the current date, then sets the date, month, and year according to the values passed in. For example, if you want to go back 6 days then pass in -6 like so var newdate = createDate(-6,0,0). If you don't want to set a value pass in a zero (or you could set default values). The method will return the new date for you (tested in Chrome and Firefox).
function createDate(days, months, years) {
var date = new Date();
date.setDate(date.getDate() + days);
date.setMonth(date.getMonth() + months);
date.setFullYear(date.getFullYear() + years);
return date;
}
2021 Update:
MomentJS has been replaced/improved with LuxonJS, a much more up-to-date and newer version. You can find it here: https://moment.github.io/luxon/#/
I'll leave the old post for now, since it could sitll help others.
Old post:
I'd recommend using the MomentJS libraries. They make all interactions with Dates a lot simpler.
If you use Moment, your code would be as simple as this:
var today = moment();
var nextMonth = today.add('month', 1);
// note that both variables `today` and `nextMonth` refer to
// the next month at this point, because `add` mutates in-place
You can find MomentJS here: http://momentjs.com/
UPDATE:
In JavaScript, the Date.getDate() function returns the current day of the month from 1-31. You are subtracting 6 from this number, and it is currently the 3rd of the month. This brings the value to -3.
This is a pure-function which takes a passed-in starting date, building on Phil's answer:
function deltaDate(input, days, months, years) {
return new Date(
input.getFullYear() + years,
input.getMonth() + months,
Math.min(
input.getDate() + days,
new Date(input.getFullYear() + years, input.getMonth() + months + 1, 0).getDate()
)
);
}
e.g. writes the date one month ago to the console log:
console.log(deltaDate(new Date(), 0, -1, 0));
e.g. subtracts a month from March 30, 2020:
console.log(deltaDate(new Date(2020, 2, 30), 0, -1, 0)); // Feb 29, 2020
Note that this works even if you go past the end of the month or year.
Update: As the example above shows, this has been updated to handle variances in the number of days in a month.
I implemented a function similar to the momentjs method subtract.
- If you use Javascript
function addDate(dt, amount, dateType) {
switch (dateType) {
case 'days':
return dt.setDate(dt.getDate() + amount) && dt;
case 'weeks':
return dt.setDate(dt.getDate() + (7 * amount)) && dt;
case 'months':
return dt.setMonth(dt.getMonth() + amount) && dt;
case 'years':
return dt.setFullYear( dt.getFullYear() + amount) && dt;
}
}
example:
let dt = new Date();
dt = addDate(dt, -1, 'months');// use -1 to subtract
- If you use Typescript:
export enum dateAmountType {
DAYS,
WEEKS,
MONTHS,
YEARS,
}
export function addDate(dt: Date, amount: number, dateType: dateAmountType): Date {
switch (dateType) {
case dateAmountType.DAYS:
return dt.setDate(dt.getDate() + amount) && dt;
case dateAmountType.WEEKS:
return dt.setDate(dt.getDate() + (7 * amount)) && dt;
case dateAmountType.MONTHS:
return dt.setMonth(dt.getMonth() + amount) && dt;
case dateAmountType.YEARS:
return dt.setFullYear( dt.getFullYear() + amount) && dt;
}
}
example:
let dt = new Date();
dt = addDate(dt, -1, 'months'); // use -1 to subtract
Optional (unit-tests)
I also made some unit-tests for this function using Jasmine:
it('addDate() should works properly', () => {
for (const test of [
{ amount: 1, dateType: dateAmountType.DAYS, expect: '2020-04-13'},
{ amount: -1, dateType: dateAmountType.DAYS, expect: '2020-04-11'},
{ amount: 1, dateType: dateAmountType.WEEKS, expect: '2020-04-19'},
{ amount: -1, dateType: dateAmountType.WEEKS, expect: '2020-04-05'},
{ amount: 1, dateType: dateAmountType.MONTHS, expect: '2020-05-12'},
{ amount: -1, dateType: dateAmountType.MONTHS, expect: '2020-03-12'},
{ amount: 1, dateType: dateAmountType.YEARS, expect: '2021-04-12'},
{ amount: -1, dateType: dateAmountType.YEARS, expect: '2019-04-12'},
]) {
expect(formatDate(addDate(new Date('2020-04-12'), test.amount, test.dateType))).toBe(test.expect);
}
});
To use this test you need this function:
// get format date as 'YYYY-MM-DD'
export function formatDate(date: Date): string {
const d = new Date(date);
let month = '' + (d.getMonth() + 1);
let day = '' + d.getDate();
const year = d.getFullYear();
if (month.length < 2) {
month = '0' + month;
}
if (day.length < 2) {
day = '0' + day;
}
return [year, month, day].join('-');
}
Use the moment.js library for time and date management.
import moment = require('moment');
const now = moment();
now.subtract(7, 'seconds'); // 7 seconds ago
now.subtract(7, 'days'); // 7 days and 7 seconds ago
now.subtract(7, 'months'); // 7 months, 7 days and 7 seconds ago
now.subtract(7, 'years'); // 7 years, 7 months, 7 days and 7 seconds ago
// because `now` has been mutated, it no longer represents the current time
The oneliner to get for instance the date of yesterday would be:
const yesterday = ((date) => date.setDate(date.getDate() - 1) && date)(new Date());
It will define an arrow function which receives the new Date() as a parameter (date). The reason to make an arrow function is that the new Date object will be used multiple times. First to retrieve the current days (getDate), then to set the days (setDate) and also to return it as a result. So it will return the mutated date, not the original date.
Now this arrow function is defined and will be called immediately with the new Date() in order to return the date of yesterday.
I have a simpler answer, which works perfectly for days; for months, it's +-2 days:
let today=new Date();
const days_to_subtract=30;
let new_date= new Date(today.valueOf()-(days_to_subtract*24*60*60*1000));
You get the idea - for months, multiply by 30; but that will be +-2 days.
This does not answer the question fully, but for anyone who is able to calculate the number of days by which they would like to offset an initial date then the following method will work:
myDate.setUTCDate(myDate.getUTCDate() + offsetDays);
offsetDays can be positive or negative and the result will be correct for any given initial date with any given offset.
Vanilla JS Date saves the time as milliseconds from Epoch time (1970), so all we need to do is subtract in milliseconds.
if we want to subtract 10 days we would subtract 1000(ms) * 60(s) * 60(m) * 24(h) * 10(d)
A simple Vanilla function to subtract from a date (notice the years exception):
subtractFromDate(new Date(), { hours: 15 }) // now - 15 hours
subtractFromDate(new Date(), { days: 15 }) // now - 15 days
subtractFromDate(new Date(), { years: 15 }) // now - 15 years
const subtractFromDate = (
date,
{ years, days, hours, minutes, seconds, milliseconds } = {}
) => {
const millisecondsOffset = milliseconds ?? 0
const secondsOffset = seconds ? 1000 * seconds : 0
const minutesOffset = minutes ? 1000 * 60 * minutes : 0
const hoursOffset = hours ? 1000 * 60 * 60 * hours : 0
const daysOffset = days ? 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24 * days : 0
const dateOffset =
millisecondsOffset +
secondsOffset +
minutesOffset +
hoursOffset +
daysOffset
let newDate = date
if (years) newDate = date.setFullYear(date.getFullYear() - years)
newDate = new Date(newDate - dateOffset)
return newDate
}
Does anybody know of a simple way of taking a date (e.g. Today) and going back X days, X months and X years?
I have tried that:
var date = new Date();
$("#searchDateFrom").val((date.getMonth() -1 ) + '/' + (date.getDate() - 6) + '/' + (date.getFullYear() - 1));
But I got a negative date, for example today the output was:
3/-3/2015
Any advise?
Thanks.
You are simply reducing the values from a number. So substracting 6 from 3 (date) will return -3 only.
You need to individually add/remove unit of time in date object
var date = new Date();
date.setDate( date.getDate() - 6 );
date.setFullYear( date.getFullYear() - 1 );
$("#searchDateFrom").val((date.getMonth() ) + '/' + (date.getDate()) + '/' + (date.getFullYear()));
As others have said you're subtracting from the numeric values returned from methods like date.getDate(), you need to reset those values on your date variable. I've created a method below that will do this for you. It creates a date using new Date() which will initialize with the current date, then sets the date, month, and year according to the values passed in. For example, if you want to go back 6 days then pass in -6 like so var newdate = createDate(-6,0,0). If you don't want to set a value pass in a zero (or you could set default values). The method will return the new date for you (tested in Chrome and Firefox).
function createDate(days, months, years) {
var date = new Date();
date.setDate(date.getDate() + days);
date.setMonth(date.getMonth() + months);
date.setFullYear(date.getFullYear() + years);
return date;
}
2021 Update:
MomentJS has been replaced/improved with LuxonJS, a much more up-to-date and newer version. You can find it here: https://moment.github.io/luxon/#/
I'll leave the old post for now, since it could sitll help others.
Old post:
I'd recommend using the MomentJS libraries. They make all interactions with Dates a lot simpler.
If you use Moment, your code would be as simple as this:
var today = moment();
var nextMonth = today.add('month', 1);
// note that both variables `today` and `nextMonth` refer to
// the next month at this point, because `add` mutates in-place
You can find MomentJS here: http://momentjs.com/
UPDATE:
In JavaScript, the Date.getDate() function returns the current day of the month from 1-31. You are subtracting 6 from this number, and it is currently the 3rd of the month. This brings the value to -3.
This is a pure-function which takes a passed-in starting date, building on Phil's answer:
function deltaDate(input, days, months, years) {
return new Date(
input.getFullYear() + years,
input.getMonth() + months,
Math.min(
input.getDate() + days,
new Date(input.getFullYear() + years, input.getMonth() + months + 1, 0).getDate()
)
);
}
e.g. writes the date one month ago to the console log:
console.log(deltaDate(new Date(), 0, -1, 0));
e.g. subtracts a month from March 30, 2020:
console.log(deltaDate(new Date(2020, 2, 30), 0, -1, 0)); // Feb 29, 2020
Note that this works even if you go past the end of the month or year.
Update: As the example above shows, this has been updated to handle variances in the number of days in a month.
I implemented a function similar to the momentjs method subtract.
- If you use Javascript
function addDate(dt, amount, dateType) {
switch (dateType) {
case 'days':
return dt.setDate(dt.getDate() + amount) && dt;
case 'weeks':
return dt.setDate(dt.getDate() + (7 * amount)) && dt;
case 'months':
return dt.setMonth(dt.getMonth() + amount) && dt;
case 'years':
return dt.setFullYear( dt.getFullYear() + amount) && dt;
}
}
example:
let dt = new Date();
dt = addDate(dt, -1, 'months');// use -1 to subtract
- If you use Typescript:
export enum dateAmountType {
DAYS,
WEEKS,
MONTHS,
YEARS,
}
export function addDate(dt: Date, amount: number, dateType: dateAmountType): Date {
switch (dateType) {
case dateAmountType.DAYS:
return dt.setDate(dt.getDate() + amount) && dt;
case dateAmountType.WEEKS:
return dt.setDate(dt.getDate() + (7 * amount)) && dt;
case dateAmountType.MONTHS:
return dt.setMonth(dt.getMonth() + amount) && dt;
case dateAmountType.YEARS:
return dt.setFullYear( dt.getFullYear() + amount) && dt;
}
}
example:
let dt = new Date();
dt = addDate(dt, -1, 'months'); // use -1 to subtract
Optional (unit-tests)
I also made some unit-tests for this function using Jasmine:
it('addDate() should works properly', () => {
for (const test of [
{ amount: 1, dateType: dateAmountType.DAYS, expect: '2020-04-13'},
{ amount: -1, dateType: dateAmountType.DAYS, expect: '2020-04-11'},
{ amount: 1, dateType: dateAmountType.WEEKS, expect: '2020-04-19'},
{ amount: -1, dateType: dateAmountType.WEEKS, expect: '2020-04-05'},
{ amount: 1, dateType: dateAmountType.MONTHS, expect: '2020-05-12'},
{ amount: -1, dateType: dateAmountType.MONTHS, expect: '2020-03-12'},
{ amount: 1, dateType: dateAmountType.YEARS, expect: '2021-04-12'},
{ amount: -1, dateType: dateAmountType.YEARS, expect: '2019-04-12'},
]) {
expect(formatDate(addDate(new Date('2020-04-12'), test.amount, test.dateType))).toBe(test.expect);
}
});
To use this test you need this function:
// get format date as 'YYYY-MM-DD'
export function formatDate(date: Date): string {
const d = new Date(date);
let month = '' + (d.getMonth() + 1);
let day = '' + d.getDate();
const year = d.getFullYear();
if (month.length < 2) {
month = '0' + month;
}
if (day.length < 2) {
day = '0' + day;
}
return [year, month, day].join('-');
}
Use the moment.js library for time and date management.
import moment = require('moment');
const now = moment();
now.subtract(7, 'seconds'); // 7 seconds ago
now.subtract(7, 'days'); // 7 days and 7 seconds ago
now.subtract(7, 'months'); // 7 months, 7 days and 7 seconds ago
now.subtract(7, 'years'); // 7 years, 7 months, 7 days and 7 seconds ago
// because `now` has been mutated, it no longer represents the current time
The oneliner to get for instance the date of yesterday would be:
const yesterday = ((date) => date.setDate(date.getDate() - 1) && date)(new Date());
It will define an arrow function which receives the new Date() as a parameter (date). The reason to make an arrow function is that the new Date object will be used multiple times. First to retrieve the current days (getDate), then to set the days (setDate) and also to return it as a result. So it will return the mutated date, not the original date.
Now this arrow function is defined and will be called immediately with the new Date() in order to return the date of yesterday.
I have a simpler answer, which works perfectly for days; for months, it's +-2 days:
let today=new Date();
const days_to_subtract=30;
let new_date= new Date(today.valueOf()-(days_to_subtract*24*60*60*1000));
You get the idea - for months, multiply by 30; but that will be +-2 days.
This does not answer the question fully, but for anyone who is able to calculate the number of days by which they would like to offset an initial date then the following method will work:
myDate.setUTCDate(myDate.getUTCDate() + offsetDays);
offsetDays can be positive or negative and the result will be correct for any given initial date with any given offset.
Vanilla JS Date saves the time as milliseconds from Epoch time (1970), so all we need to do is subtract in milliseconds.
if we want to subtract 10 days we would subtract 1000(ms) * 60(s) * 60(m) * 24(h) * 10(d)
A simple Vanilla function to subtract from a date (notice the years exception):
subtractFromDate(new Date(), { hours: 15 }) // now - 15 hours
subtractFromDate(new Date(), { days: 15 }) // now - 15 days
subtractFromDate(new Date(), { years: 15 }) // now - 15 years
const subtractFromDate = (
date,
{ years, days, hours, minutes, seconds, milliseconds } = {}
) => {
const millisecondsOffset = milliseconds ?? 0
const secondsOffset = seconds ? 1000 * seconds : 0
const minutesOffset = minutes ? 1000 * 60 * minutes : 0
const hoursOffset = hours ? 1000 * 60 * 60 * hours : 0
const daysOffset = days ? 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24 * days : 0
const dateOffset =
millisecondsOffset +
secondsOffset +
minutesOffset +
hoursOffset +
daysOffset
let newDate = date
if (years) newDate = date.setFullYear(date.getFullYear() - years)
newDate = new Date(newDate - dateOffset)
return newDate
}
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Is there an easy way of taking a olain JavaScript Date (e.g. today) and going back X days?
So, for example, if I want to calculate the date 5 days before today.
Try something like this:
var d = new Date();
d.setDate(d.getDate()-5);
Note that this modifies the date object and returns the time value of the updated date.
var d = new Date();
document.write('Today is: ' + d.toLocaleString());
d.setDate(d.getDate() - 5);
document.write('<br>5 days ago was: ' + d.toLocaleString());
var dateOffset = (24*60*60*1000) * 5; //5 days
var myDate = new Date();
myDate.setTime(myDate.getTime() - dateOffset);
If you're performing lots of headachy date manipulation throughout your web application, DateJS will make your life much easier:
http://simonwillison.net/2007/Dec/3/datejs/
It goes something like this:
var d = new Date(); // today!
var x = 5; // go back 5 days!
d.setDate(d.getDate() - x);
I noticed that the getDays+ X doesn't work over day/month boundaries. Using getTime works as long as your date is not before 1970.
var todayDate = new Date(), weekDate = new Date();
weekDate.setTime(todayDate.getTime()-(7*24*3600000));
If you want it all on one line instead.
5 days from today
//past
var fiveDaysAgo = new Date(new Date().setDate(new Date().getDate() - 5));
//future
var fiveDaysInTheFuture = new Date(new Date().setDate(new Date().getDate() + 5));
5 days from a specific date
var pastDate = new Date('2019-12-12T00:00:00');
//past
var fiveDaysAgo = new Date(new Date().setDate(pastDate.getDate() - 5));
//future
var fiveDaysInTheFuture = new Date(new Date().setDate(pastDate.getDate() + 5));
I wrote a function you can use.
function AddOrSubractDays(startingDate, number, add) {
if (add) {
return new Date(new Date().setDate(startingDate.getDate() + number));
} else {
return new Date(new Date().setDate(startingDate.getDate() - number));
}
}
console.log('Today : ' + new Date());
console.log('Future : ' + AddOrSubractDays(new Date(), 5, true));
console.log('Past : ' + AddOrSubractDays(new Date(), 5, false));
I find a problem with the getDate()/setDate() method is that it too easily turns everything into milliseconds, and the syntax is sometimes hard for me to follow.
Instead I like to work off the fact that 1 day = 86,400,000 milliseconds.
So, for your particular question:
today = new Date()
days = 86400000 //number of milliseconds in a day
fiveDaysAgo = new Date(today - (5*days))
Works like a charm.
I use this method all the time for doing rolling 30/60/365 day calculations.
You can easily extrapolate this to create units of time for months, years, etc.
get moment.js. All the cool kids use it. It has more formatting options, etc. Where
var n = 5;
var dateMnsFive = moment(<your date>).subtract(n , 'day');
Optional! Convert to JS Date obj for Angular binding.
var date = new Date(dateMnsFive.toISOString());
Optional! Format
var date = dateMnsFive.format("YYYY-MM-DD");
A few of the existing solutions were close, but not quite exactly what I wanted. This function works with both positive or negative values and handles boundary cases.
function addDays(date, days) {
return new Date(
date.getFullYear(),
date.getMonth(),
date.getDate() + days,
date.getHours(),
date.getMinutes(),
date.getSeconds(),
date.getMilliseconds()
);
}
Without using the second variable, you can replace 7 for with your back x days:
let d=new Date(new Date().getTime() - (7 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000))
I made this prototype for Date so that I could pass negative values to subtract days and positive values to add days.
if(!Date.prototype.adjustDate){
Date.prototype.adjustDate = function(days){
var date;
days = days || 0;
if(days === 0){
date = new Date( this.getTime() );
} else if(days > 0) {
date = new Date( this.getTime() );
date.setDate(date.getDate() + days);
} else {
date = new Date(
this.getFullYear(),
this.getMonth(),
this.getDate() - Math.abs(days),
this.getHours(),
this.getMinutes(),
this.getSeconds(),
this.getMilliseconds()
);
}
this.setTime(date.getTime());
return this;
};
}
So, to use it i can simply write:
var date_subtract = new Date().adjustDate(-4),
date_add = new Date().adjustDate(4);
I like doing the maths in milliseconds. So use Date.now()
var newDate = Date.now() + -5*24*3600*1000; // date 5 days ago in milliseconds
and if you like it formatted
new Date(newDate).toString(); // or .toUTCString or .toISOString ...
NOTE: Date.now() doesn't work in older browsers (eg IE8 I think). Polyfill here.
UPDATE June 2015
#socketpair pointed out my sloppiness. As s/he says "Some day in year have 23 hours, and some 25 due to timezone rules".
To expand on that, the answer above will have daylightsaving inaccuracies in the case where you want to calculate the LOCAL day 5 days ago in a timezone with daylightsaving changes and you
assume (wrongly) that Date.now() gives you the current LOCAL now time, or
use .toString() which returns the local date and therefore is incompatible with the Date.now() base date in UTC.
However, it works if you're doing your math all in UTC, eg
A. You want the UTC date 5 days ago from NOW (UTC)
var newDate = Date.now() + -5*24*3600*1000; // date 5 days ago in milliseconds UTC
new Date(newDate).toUTCString(); // or .toISOString(), BUT NOT toString
B. You start with a UTC base date other than "now", using Date.UTC()
newDate = new Date(Date.UTC(2015, 3, 1)).getTime() + -5*24*3600000;
new Date(newDate).toUTCString(); // or .toISOString BUT NOT toString
split your date into parts, then return a new Date with the adjusted values
function DateAdd(date, type, amount){
var y = date.getFullYear(),
m = date.getMonth(),
d = date.getDate();
if(type === 'y'){
y += amount;
};
if(type === 'm'){
m += amount;
};
if(type === 'd'){
d += amount;
};
return new Date(y, m, d);
}
Remember that the months are zero based, but the days are not. ie new Date(2009, 1, 1) == 01 February 2009, new Date(2009, 1, 0) == 31 January 2009;
Some people suggested using moment.js to make your life easier when handling dates in js. Time has passed since those answers and it is noteworthy, that the authors of moment.js now discourage its use. Mainly due to its size and lack of tree-shaking-support.
If you want to go the library route, use an alternative like Luxon. It is significantly smaller (because of its clever use of the Intl object and support for tree-shaking) and just as versatile as moment.js.
To go back 5 days from today in Luxon, you would do:
import { DateTime } from 'luxon'
DateTime.now().minus({ days: 5 });
function addDays (date, daysToAdd) {
var _24HoursInMilliseconds = 86400000;
return new Date(date.getTime() + daysToAdd * _24HoursInMilliseconds);
};
var now = new Date();
var yesterday = addDays(now, - 1);
var tomorrow = addDays(now, 1);
See the following code, subtract the days from the current date. Also, set the month according to substracted date.
var today = new Date();
var substract_no_of_days = 25;
today.setTime(today.getTime() - substract_no_of_days* 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000);
var substracted_date = (today.getMonth()+1) + "/" +today.getDate() + "/" + today.getFullYear();
alert(substracted_date);
I have created a function for date manipulation. you can add or subtract any number of days, hours, minutes.
function dateManipulation(date, days, hrs, mins, operator) {
date = new Date(date);
if (operator == "-") {
var durationInMs = (((24 * days) * 60) + (hrs * 60) + mins) * 60000;
var newDate = new Date(date.getTime() - durationInMs);
} else {
var durationInMs = (((24 * days) * 60) + (hrs * 60) + mins) * 60000;
var newDate = new Date(date.getTime() + durationInMs);
}
return newDate;
}
Now, call this function by passing parameters. For example, here is a function call for getting date before 3 days from today.
var today = new Date();
var newDate = dateManipulation(today, 3, 0, 0, "-");
Use MomentJS.
function getXDaysBeforeDate(referenceDate, x) {
return moment(referenceDate).subtract(x , 'day').format('MMMM Do YYYY, h:mm:ss a');
}
var yourDate = new Date(); // let's say today
var valueOfX = 7; // let's say 7 days before
console.log(getXDaysBeforeDate(yourDate, valueOfX));
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/moment.js/2.22.2/moment.min.js"></script>
The top answers led to a bug in my code where on the first of the month it would set a future date in the current month. Here is what I did,
curDate = new Date(); // Took current date as an example
prvDate = new Date(0); // Date set to epoch 0
prvDate.setUTCMilliseconds((curDate - (5 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000))); //Set epoch time
I like the following because it is one line. Not perfect with DST changes but usually good enough for my needs.
var fiveDaysAgo = new Date(new Date() - (1000*60*60*24*5));
Using Modern JavaScript function syntax
const getDaysPastDate = (daysBefore, date = new Date) => new Date(date - (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24 * daysBefore));
console.log(getDaysPastDate(1)); // yesterday
A easy way to manage dates is use Moment.js
You can use add. Example
var startdate = "20.03.2014";
var new_date = moment(startdate, "DD.MM.YYYY");
new_date.add(5, 'days'); //Add 5 days to start date
alert(new_date);
Docs http://momentjs.com/docs/#/manipulating/add/
for me all the combinations worked fine with below code snipplet ,
the snippet is for Angular-2 implementation ,
if you need to add days , pass positive numberofDays , if you need to substract pass negative numberofDays
function addSubstractDays(date: Date, numberofDays: number): Date {
let d = new Date(date);
return new Date(
d.getFullYear(),
d.getMonth(),
(d.getDate() + numberofDays)
);
}
I get good mileage out of date.js:
http://www.datejs.com/
d = new Date();
d.add(-10).days(); // subtract 10 days
Nice!
Website includes this beauty:
Datejs doesn’t just parse strings, it slices them cleanly in two
If you want to both subtract a number of days and format your date in a human readable format, you should consider creating a custom DateHelper object that looks something like this :
var DateHelper = {
addDays : function(aDate, numberOfDays) {
aDate.setDate(aDate.getDate() + numberOfDays); // Add numberOfDays
return aDate; // Return the date
},
format : function format(date) {
return [
("0" + date.getDate()).slice(-2), // Get day and pad it with zeroes
("0" + (date.getMonth()+1)).slice(-2), // Get month and pad it with zeroes
date.getFullYear() // Get full year
].join('/'); // Glue the pieces together
}
}
// With this helper, you can now just use one line of readable code to :
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------
// 1. Get the current date
// 2. Subtract 5 days
// 3. Format it
// 4. Output it
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------
document.body.innerHTML = DateHelper.format(DateHelper.addDays(new Date(), -5));
(see also this Fiddle)
To calculate relative time stamps with a more precise difference than whole days, you can use Date.getTime() and Date.setTime() to work with integers representing the number of milliseconds since a certain epoch—namely, January 1, 1970. For example, if you want to know when it’s 17 hours after right now:
const msSinceEpoch = (new Date()).getTime();
const fortyEightHoursLater = new Date(msSinceEpoch + 48 * 60 * 60 * 1000).toLocaleString();
const fortyEightHoursEarlier = new Date(msSinceEpoch - 48 * 60 * 60 * 1000).toLocaleString();
const fiveDaysAgo = new Date(msSinceEpoch - 120 * 60 * 60 * 1000).toLocaleString();
console.log({msSinceEpoch, fortyEightHoursLater, fortyEightHoursEarlier, fiveDaysAgo})
reference
function daysSinceGivenDate (date) {
const dateInSeconds = Math.floor((new Date().valueOf() - date.valueOf()) / 1000);
const oneDayInSeconds = 86400;
return Math.floor(dateInSeconds / oneDayInSeconds); // casted to int
};
console.log(daysSinceGivenDate(new Date())); // 0
console.log(daysSinceGivenDate(new Date("January 1, 2022 03:24:00"))); // relative...
First arg is the date to start with and second is how mush day you want to increase or reduce to the date
example (1)- pass -1 to reduce date by one day
example (2)- pass 1 to increase date by one day
const EditDay = (date: Date, num: number): Date => {
return new Date(date.getTime() + num * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000)
}
When setting the date, the date converts to milliseconds, so you need to convert it back to a date:
This method also take into consideration, new year change etc.
function addDays( date, days ) {
var dateInMs = date.setDate(date.getDate() - days);
return new Date(dateInMs);
}
var date_from = new Date();
var date_to = addDays( new Date(), parseInt(days) );
You can using Javascript.
var CurrDate = new Date(); // Current Date
var numberOfDays = 5;
var days = CurrDate.setDate(CurrDate.getDate() + numberOfDays);
alert(days); // It will print 5 days before today
For PHP,
$date = date('Y-m-d', strtotime("-5 days")); // it shows 5 days before today.
echo $date;
Hope it will help you.
I converted into millisecond and deducted days else month and year won't change and logical
var numberOfDays = 10;//number of days need to deducted or added
var date = "01-01-2018"// date need to change
var dt = new Date(parseInt(date.substring(6), 10), // Year
parseInt(date.substring(3,5), 10) - 1, // Month (0-11)
parseInt(date.substring(0,2), 10));
var new_dt = dt.setMilliseconds(dt.getMilliseconds() - numberOfDays*24*60*60*1000);
new_dt = new Date(new_dt);
var changed_date = new_dt.getDate()+"-"+(new_dt.getMonth()+1)+"-"+new_dt.getFullYear();
Hope helps