I really need your help,
Let's say my demarcation start date is: December 19, 2016 as defined by the variable x
How can I write a JavaScript function, such that it will check the present date against x and the present date against what the recurrence date will be (14) days from x as defined by the variable y.
var y = recurrence is every 14 days, thereafter from the date (x) with no end date specified (unlimited)
Ex.
function() {
if (present date == x) { alert(true) }
if (present date == y) { alert(true) }
}
You could get the number of days difference between your start date and the current date then check if that number is a multiple of 14.
function treatAsUTC(date) {
var result = new Date(date);
result.setMinutes(result.getMinutes() - result.getTimezoneOffset());
return result;
}
function daysBetween(startDate, endDate) {
var millisecondsPerDay = 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000;
return Math.floor((treatAsUTC(endDate) - treatAsUTC(startDate)) / millisecondsPerDay);
}
var demarcationdate = new Date("2016-12-19"),
today = new Date(),
days = daysBetween(demarcationdate,today),
daystill = 14 - days%14,
rec = days%14==0,
d = new Date();
d.setDate(today.getDate() + daystill);
var nextDate = (d.getDate() + "/" + (d.getMonth() + 1) + "/" + d.getFullYear());
console.log("Days diff = "+days+". Recurs today = "+rec+". Next in "+daystill+" days ("+nextDate.toString()+").");
jsFiddle
If Date.now() == 1482181410856, 14 days from now will be 1482181410856 + (14 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000) == 1483391010856.
let y = new Date(Date.now() + (14 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000));
console.log(y.toUTCString()); // "Mon, 02 Jan 2017 21:03:30 GMT"
Assuming you really want to compare precise dates, i.e. to the milliseconds, then:
var present_date = new Date();
if(present_date.getTime() === x.getTime()) alert("Today is the same date as x");
else {
var y = new Date(x.getTime());
y.setDate(y.getDate() + 14); // add 14 days
if(present_date.getTime() === y.getTime()) alert("Today is the same date as y");
}
But most of the time we want to compare dates as full days, not milliseconds, so you'd have to compare ranges instead (from midnight to 11:59PM)... In that case, I recommend using a library to make your life easier - like moment.js for instance...
Hope this helps!
This is probably a duplicate of Add +1 to current date.
If you have a start date, say 20 December, 2016, you can calculate 14 days after that by simply adding 14 days to the date. You can then check if today's date is either of those dates, e.g.
// Create a Date for 20 December, 2016 with time 00:00:00
var startDate = new Date(2016,11,20);
// Create a Date for the start + 14 days with time 00:00:00
var startPlus14 = new Date(startDate);
startPlus14.setDate(startPlus14.getDate() + 14);
// Get today and set the time to 00:00:00.000
var today = new Date();
today.setHours(0,0,0,0);
if (+today == +startDate) {
console.log('Today is the start date');
} else if (+today == +startPlus14) {
console.log('Today is 14 days after the start date');
} else {
console.log('Today is neither the start nor 14 days after the start');
}
I'm trying to return the number of weeks between two dates using JavaScript.
So I have the following variables:
var date = new Date();
var day = date.getDate();
var month = date.getMonth() + 1;
var year = date.getFullYear();
if(day < 10) { day= '0' + day; }
if(month < 10) { month = '0' + month; }
var dateToday = day + '/' + month + '/' + year;
var dateEndPlacement = '22/06/2014';
I've also prefixed the days and months with 0 if they are less than 10. Not sure if this is the correct way to do this... so alternative ideas would be welcomed.
And then I pass these two dates to the following function:
function calculateWeeksBetween(date1, date2) {
// The number of milliseconds in one week
var ONE_WEEK = 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24 * 7;
// Convert both dates to milliseconds
var date1_ms = date1.getTime();
var date2_ms = date2.getTime();
// Calculate the difference in milliseconds
var difference_ms = Math.abs(date1_ms - date2_ms);
// Convert back to weeks and return hole weeks
return Math.floor(difference_ms / ONE_WEEK);
}
However I get the error:
Uncaught TypeError: Object 04/04/2014 has no method 'getTime'
Any ideas what I am doing wrong?
For those that are asking/gonna ask, I'm calling the function like this:
calculateWeeksBetween(dateToday, dateEndPlacement);
I would recommend using moment.js for this kind of thing.
But if you want to do it in pure javascript here is how I would do it:
function weeksBetween(d1, d2) {
return Math.round((d2 - d1) / (7 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000));
}
Then call with
weeksBetween(new Date(), new Date(2014, 6, 22));
You are storing your dates as strings ('22/06/2014'). getTime is a method of Date. You need to create Date objects for the dates, and pass those into the function.
var dateToday = new Date(year, month - 1, day);
var dateEndPlacement = new Date(2014, 5, 22);
calculateWeeksBetween(dateToday, dateEndPlacement);
As #Mosho notes, you can also subtract the dates directly, without using getTime.
If you need actual weeks between to dates, and not the number of seven days between them:
const week = 7 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000;
const day = 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000;
function startOfWeek(dt) {
const weekday = dt.getDay();
return new Date(dt.getTime() - Math.abs(0 - weekday) * day);
}
function weeksBetween(d1, d2) {
return Math.ceil((startOfWeek(d2) - startOfWeek(d1)) / week);
}
You can use moment itself have all the functionality I mentioned the below code which could work perfectly
var a = moment(a, 'DD-MM-YYYY');
var b = moment(b, 'DD-MM-YYYY');
days=b.diff(a, 'week');
don't forget to use moment js CDN
subtract dates (which, unformatted, are the number of seconds elapsed since 1 January 1970 00:00:00) , divide by 604,800,000 (milliseconds per week).
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date
You should convert dateToday and dateEndPlacement to Date type.
Please read Converting string to date in js
I want to take a day of the year and convert to an actual date using the Date object. Example: day 257 of 1929, how can I go about doing this?
"I want to take a day of the year and convert to an actual date using the Date object."
After re-reading your question, it sounds like you have a year number, and an arbitrary day number (e.g. a number within 0..365 (or 366 for a leap year)), and you want to get a date from that.
For example:
dateFromDay(2010, 301); // "Thu Oct 28 2010", today ;)
dateFromDay(2010, 365); // "Fri Dec 31 2010"
If it's that, can be done easily:
function dateFromDay(year, day){
var date = new Date(year, 0); // initialize a date in `year-01-01`
return new Date(date.setDate(day)); // add the number of days
}
You could add also some validation, to ensure that the day number is withing the range of days in the year supplied.
The shortest possible way is to create a new date object with the given year, January as month and your day of the year as date:
const date = new Date(2017, 0, 365);
console.log(date.toLocaleDateString());
As for setDate the correct month gets calculated if the given date is larger than the month's length.
// You might need both parts of it-
Date.fromDayofYear= function(n, y){
if(!y) y= new Date().getFullYear();
var d= new Date(y, 0, 1);
return new Date(d.setMonth(0, n));
}
Date.prototype.dayofYear= function(){
var d= new Date(this.getFullYear(), 0, 0);
return Math.floor((this-d)/8.64e+7);
}
var d=new Date().dayofYear();
//
alert('day#'+d+' is '+Date.fromDayofYear(d).toLocaleDateString())
/* returned value: (String)
day#301 is Thursday, October 28, 2010
*/
Here is a function that takes a day number, and returns the date object
optionally, it takes a year in YYYY format for parameter 2. If you leave it off, it will default to current year.
var getDateFromDayNum = function(dayNum, year){
var date = new Date();
if(year){
date.setFullYear(year);
}
date.setMonth(0);
date.setDate(0);
var timeOfFirst = date.getTime(); // this is the time in milliseconds of 1/1/YYYY
var dayMilli = 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24;
var dayNumMilli = dayNum * dayMilli;
date.setTime(timeOfFirst + dayNumMilli);
return date;
}
OUTPUT
// OUTPUT OF DAY 232 of year 1995
var pastDate = getDateFromDayNum(232,1995)
console.log("PAST DATE: " , pastDate);
PAST DATE: Sun Aug 20 1995 09:47:18 GMT-0400 (EDT)
Here's my implementation, which supports fractional days. The concept is simple: get the unix timestamp of midnight on the first day of the year, then multiply the desired day by the number of milliseconds in a day.
/**
* Converts day of the year to a unix timestamp
* #param {Number} dayOfYear 1-365, with support for floats
* #param {Number} year (optional) 2 or 4 digit year representation. Defaults to
* current year.
* #return {Number} Unix timestamp (ms precision)
*/
function dayOfYearToTimestamp(dayOfYear, year) {
year = year || (new Date()).getFullYear();
var dayMS = 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24;
// Note the Z, forcing this to UTC time. Without this it would be a local time, which would have to be further adjusted to account for timezone.
var yearStart = new Date('1/1/' + year + ' 0:0:0 Z');
return yearStart + ((dayOfYear - 1) * dayMS);
}
// usage
// 2015-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
console.log(new Date(dayOfYearToTimestamp(1, 2015)));
// support for fractional day (for satellite TLE propagation, etc)
// 2015-06-29T12:19:03.437Z
console.log(new Date(dayOfYearToTimestamp(180.51323423, 2015)).toISOString);
If I understand your question correctly, you can do that from the Date constructor like this
new Date(year, month, day, hours, minutes, seconds, milliseconds)
All arguments as integers
You have a few options;
If you're using a standard format, you can do something like:
new Date(dateStr);
If you'd rather be safe about it, you could do:
var date, timestamp;
try {
timestamp = Date.parse(dateStr);
} catch(e) {}
if(timestamp)
date = new Date(timestamp);
or simply,
new Date(Date.parse(dateStr));
Or, if you have an arbitrary format, split the string/parse it into units, and do:
new Date(year, month - 1, day)
Example of the last:
var dateStr = '28/10/2010'; // uncommon US short date
var dateArr = dateStr.split('/');
var dateObj = new Date(dateArr[2], parseInt(dateArr[1]) - 1, dateArr[0]);
this also works ..
function to2(x) { return ("0"+x).slice(-2); }
function formatDate(d){
return d.getFullYear()+"-"+to2(d.getMonth()+1)+"-"+to2(d.getDate());
}
document.write(formatDate(new Date(2016,0,257)));
prints "2016-09-13"
which is correct as 2016 is a leaap year. (see calendars here: http://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/julian_calendar.html )
If you always want a UTC date:
function getDateFromDayOfYear (year, day) {
return new Date(Date.UTC(year, 0, day))
}
console.log(getDateFromDayOfYear(2020, 1)) // 2020-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
console.log(getDateFromDayOfYear(2020, 305)) // 2020-10-31T00:00:00.000Z
console.log(getDateFromDayOfYear(2020, 366)) // 2020-12-31T00:00:00.000Z
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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