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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();

Javascript: Difference between days between 2 dates

I have date string 2022-01-03T00:00:00.000Z, i want to find the difference between today and this day in days.
I tried this but not working as expected.
var d1 = Date.now();
var d2 = new Date('2020-01-03T00:00:00.000Z').getTime();
console.log(d1);
console.log(d2);
var hours = hoursDiff(d1, d2);
var daysDiff = Math.floor( hours / 24 );
console.log(daysDiff);
function hoursDiff(d1, d2) {
var minutes = minutesDiff(d1, d2);
var diff = Math.floor( minutes / 60 );
return diff;
}
function minutesDiff(d1, d2) {
var seconds = secondsDiff(d1, d2);
var diff = Math.floor( seconds / 60 );
return diff;
}
function secondsDiff(d1, d2) {
var millisecondDiff = d2 - d1;
var diff = Math.floor( ( d2 - d1) / 1000 );
return diff;
}

See comments in snippet:
var d = new Date();
// build a date with 0 hours, minutes, seconds
var d1 = new Date(d.getFullYear() + '-' + ("0" + d.getMonth()).slice(-2) + '-' + d.getDate() + 'T00:00:00.000Z').getTime();
// date to compare
var d2 = new Date('2022-04-27T00:00:00.000Z').getTime();
// to seconds / to minutes / to hours/ to days
console.log((d1 - d2) / 1000 / 60 / 60 / 24);

Subtract the date from current date javascript [duplicate]

I'm creating an application which lets you define events with a time frame. I want to automatically fill in the end date when the user selects or changes the start date. I can't quite figure out, however, how to get the difference between the two times, and then how to create a new end Date using that difference.

In JavaScript, dates can be transformed to the number of milliseconds since the epoc by calling the getTime() method or just using the date in a numeric expression.
So to get the difference, just subtract the two dates.
To create a new date based on the difference, just pass the number of milliseconds in the constructor.
var oldBegin = ...
var oldEnd = ...
var newBegin = ...
var newEnd = new Date(newBegin + oldEnd - oldBegin);
This should just work
EDIT: Fixed bug pointed by #bdukes
EDIT:
For an explanation of the behavior, oldBegin, oldEnd, and newBegin are Date instances. Calling operators + and - will trigger Javascript auto casting and will automatically call the valueOf() prototype method of those objects. It happens that the valueOf() method is implemented in the Date object as a call to getTime().
So basically: date.getTime() === date.valueOf() === (0 + date) === (+date)

JavaScript perfectly supports date difference out of the box
https://jsfiddle.net/b9chris/v5twbe3h/
var msMinute = 60*1000,
msDay = 60*60*24*1000,
a = new Date(2012, 2, 12, 23, 59, 59),
b = new Date("2013 march 12");
console.log(Math.floor((b - a) / msDay) + ' full days between'); // 364
console.log(Math.floor(((b - a) % msDay) / msMinute) + ' full minutes between'); // 0
Now some pitfalls. Try this:
console.log(a - 10); // 1331614798990
console.log(a + 10); // mixed string
So if you have risk of adding a number and Date, convert Date to number directly.
console.log(a.getTime() - 10); // 1331614798990
console.log(a.getTime() + 10); // 1331614799010
My fist example demonstrates the power of Date object but it actually appears to be a time bomb

See JsFiddle DEMO
var date1 = new Date();
var date2 = new Date("2025/07/30 21:59:00");
//Customise date2 for your required future time
showDiff();
function showDiff(date1, date2){
var diff = (date2 - date1)/1000;
diff = Math.abs(Math.floor(diff));
var days = Math.floor(diff/(24*60*60));
var leftSec = diff - days * 24*60*60;
var hrs = Math.floor(leftSec/(60*60));
var leftSec = leftSec - hrs * 60*60;
var min = Math.floor(leftSec/(60));
var leftSec = leftSec - min * 60;
document.getElementById("showTime").innerHTML = "You have " + days + " days " + hrs + " hours " + min + " minutes and " + leftSec + " seconds before death.";
setTimeout(showDiff,1000);
}
for your HTML Code:
<div id="showTime"></div>

If you don't care about the time component, you can use .getDate() and .setDate() to just set the date part.
So to set your end date to 2 weeks after your start date, do something like this:
function GetEndDate(startDate)
{
var endDate = new Date(startDate.getTime());
endDate.setDate(endDate.getDate()+14);
return endDate;
}
To return the difference (in days) between two dates, do this:
function GetDateDiff(startDate, endDate)
{
return endDate.getDate() - startDate.getDate();
}
Finally, let's modify the first function so it can take the value returned by 2nd as a parameter:
function GetEndDate(startDate, days)
{
var endDate = new Date(startDate.getTime());
endDate.setDate(endDate.getDate() + days);
return endDate;
}

Thanks #Vincent Robert, I ended up using your basic example, though it's actually newBegin + oldEnd - oldBegin. Here's the simplified end solution:
// don't update end date if there's already an end date but not an old start date
if (!oldEnd || oldBegin) {
var selectedDateSpan = 1800000; // 30 minutes
if (oldEnd) {
selectedDateSpan = oldEnd - oldBegin;
}
newEnd = new Date(newBegin.getTime() + selectedDateSpan));
}

Depending on your needs, this function will calculate the difference between the 2 days, and return a result in days decimal.
// This one returns a signed decimal. The sign indicates past or future.
this.getDateDiff = function(date1, date2) {
return (date1.getTime() - date2.getTime()) / (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24);
}
// This one always returns a positive decimal. (Suggested by Koen below)
this.getDateDiff = function(date1, date2) {
return Math.abs((date1.getTime() - date2.getTime()) / (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24));
}

If using moment.js, there is a simpler solution, which will give you the difference in days in one single line of code.
moment(endDate).diff(moment(beginDate), 'days');
Additional details can be found in the moment.js page
Cheers,
Miguel

function compare()
{
var end_actual_time = $('#date3').val();
start_actual_time = new Date();
end_actual_time = new Date(end_actual_time);
var diff = end_actual_time-start_actual_time;
var diffSeconds = diff/1000;
var HH = Math.floor(diffSeconds/3600);
var MM = Math.floor(diffSeconds%3600)/60;
var formatted = ((HH < 10)?("0" + HH):HH) + ":" + ((MM < 10)?("0" + MM):MM)
getTime(diffSeconds);
}
function getTime(seconds) {
var days = Math.floor(leftover / 86400);
//how many seconds are left
leftover = leftover - (days * 86400);
//how many full hours fits in the amount of leftover seconds
var hours = Math.floor(leftover / 3600);
//how many seconds are left
leftover = leftover - (hours * 3600);
//how many minutes fits in the amount of leftover seconds
var minutes = leftover / 60;
//how many seconds are left
//leftover = leftover - (minutes * 60);
alert(days + ':' + hours + ':' + minutes);
}

alternative modificitaion extended code..
http://jsfiddle.net/vvGPQ/48/
showDiff();
function showDiff(){
var date1 = new Date("2013/01/18 06:59:00");
var date2 = new Date();
//Customise date2 for your required future time
var diff = (date2 - date1)/1000;
var diff = Math.abs(Math.floor(diff));
var years = Math.floor(diff/(365*24*60*60));
var leftSec = diff - years * 365*24*60*60;
var month = Math.floor(leftSec/((365/12)*24*60*60));
var leftSec = leftSec - month * (365/12)*24*60*60;
var days = Math.floor(leftSec/(24*60*60));
var leftSec = leftSec - days * 24*60*60;
var hrs = Math.floor(leftSec/(60*60));
var leftSec = leftSec - hrs * 60*60;
var min = Math.floor(leftSec/(60));
var leftSec = leftSec - min * 60;
document.getElementById("showTime").innerHTML = "You have " + years + " years "+ month + " month " + days + " days " + hrs + " hours " + min + " minutes and " + leftSec + " seconds the life time has passed.";
setTimeout(showDiff,1000);
}

Below code will return the days left from today to futures date.
Dependencies: jQuery and MomentJs.
var getDaysLeft = function (date) {
var today = new Date();
var daysLeftInMilliSec = Math.abs(new Date(moment(today).format('YYYY-MM-DD')) - new Date(date));
var daysLeft = daysLeftInMilliSec / (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24);
return daysLeft;
};
getDaysLeft('YYYY-MM-DD');

<html>
<head>
<script>
function dayDiff()
{
var start = document.getElementById("datepicker").value;
var end= document.getElementById("date_picker").value;
var oneDay = 24*60*60*1000;
var firstDate = new Date(start);
var secondDate = new Date(end);
var diffDays = Math.round(Math.abs((firstDate.getTime() - secondDate.getTime())/(oneDay)));
document.getElementById("leave").value =diffDays ;
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<input type="text" name="datepicker"value=""/>
<input type="text" name="date_picker" onclick="function dayDiff()" value=""/>
<input type="text" name="leave" value=""/>
</body>
</html>

this code fills the duration of study years when you input the start date and end date(qualify accured date) of study and check if the duration less than a year if yes the alert a message
take in mind there are three input elements the first txtFromQualifDate and second txtQualifDate and third txtStudyYears
it will show result of number of years with fraction
function getStudyYears()
{
if(document.getElementById('txtFromQualifDate').value != '' && document.getElementById('txtQualifDate').value != '')
{
var d1 = document.getElementById('txtFromQualifDate').value;
var d2 = document.getElementById('txtQualifDate').value;
var one_day=1000*60*60*24;
var x = d1.split("/");
var y = d2.split("/");
var date1=new Date(x[2],(x[1]-1),x[0]);
var date2=new Date(y[2],(y[1]-1),y[0])
var dDays = (date2.getTime()-date1.getTime())/one_day;
if(dDays < 365)
{
alert("the date between start study and graduate must not be less than a year !");
document.getElementById('txtQualifDate').value = "";
document.getElementById('txtStudyYears').value = "";
return ;
}
var dMonths = Math.ceil(dDays / 30);
var dYears = Math.floor(dMonths /12) + "." + dMonths % 12;
document.getElementById('txtStudyYears').value = dYears;
}
}

If you use Date objects and then use the getTime() function for both dates it will give you their respective times since Jan 1, 1970 in a number value. You can then get the difference between these numbers.
If that doesn't help you out, check out the complete documentation: http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_obj_date.asp

var getDaysLeft = function (date1, date2) {
var daysDiffInMilliSec = Math.abs(new Date(date1) - new Date(date2));
var daysLeft = daysDiffInMilliSec / (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24);
return daysLeft;
};
var date1='2018-05-18';
var date2='2018-05-25';
var dateDiff = getDaysLeft(date1, date2);
console.log(dateDiff);

To get the date difference in milliseconds between two dates:
var diff = Math.abs(date1 - date2);
I'm not sure what you mean by converting the difference back into a date though.

Many answers here are based on a direct subtraction of Date objects like new Date(…) - new Date(…). This is syntactically wrong. Browsers still accept it because of backward compatibility. But modern JS linters will throw at you.
The right way to calculate date differences in milliseconds is new Date(…).getTime() - new Date(…).getTime():
// Time difference between two dates
let diffInMillis = new Date(…).getTime() - new Date(…).getTime()
If you want to calculate the time difference to now, you can just remove the argument from the first Date:
// Time difference between now and some date
let diffInMillis = new Date().getTime() - new Date(…).getTime()

function checkdate() {
var indate = new Date()
indate.setDate(dat)
indate.setMonth(mon - 1)
indate.setFullYear(year)
var one_day = 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24
var diff = Math.ceil((indate.getTime() - now.getTime()) / (one_day))
var str = diff + " days are remaining.."
document.getElementById('print').innerHTML = str.fontcolor('blue')
}

THIS IS WHAT I DID ON MY SYSTEM.
var startTime=("08:00:00").split(":");
var endTime=("16:00:00").split(":");
var HoursInMinutes=((parseInt(endTime[0])*60)+parseInt(endTime[1]))-((parseInt(startTime[0])*60)+parseInt(startTime[1]));
console.log(HoursInMinutes/60);

Dateformat in javascript

I would like to get the date difference:
var dateString='2015-04-07T10:46:25Z';
var dt = new Date(value);
var now = new Date();
var _MS_PER_DAY = 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24;
var utc1 = Date.UTC(dt.getFullYear(), dt.getMonth(), dt.getDate());
var utc2 = Date.UTC(now.getFullYear(), now.getMonth(), now.getDate());
var days=Math.floor((utc2 - utc1) / _MS_PER_DAY);//this is 415
The result must be in this format: 415d, 03:06:33
What would be the best way to do that? I get date, but time is missing.

Try this
var datetime = new Date("2015-04-07T10:46:25Z");
var now = new Date();
if (datetime < now) {
var diffTime = now - datetime;
}else{
var diffTime = datetime - now;
}
var days = Math.floor(diffTime / 1000 / 60 / (60 * 24));
var dateDiff = new Date( diffTime );
var hour = dateDiff .getHours().toString().length == 1 ? '0' + dateDiff .getHours() : dateDiff .getHours();
var minute = dateDiff.getMinutes().toString().length == 1 ? '0' + dateDiff.getMinutes() : dateDiff.getMinutes();
var seconds = dateDiff.getSeconds().toString().length == 1 ? '0' + dateDiff.getSeconds() : dateDiff.getSeconds();
console.log(days + "d "+ hour + ":" + minute + ":" + seconds);

you need to use Modulus
var dt = new Date('2015-04-07T10:46:25Z');
var now = new Date();
var milSecondMil = 1000;
var secondMil = milSecondMil * 60;
var hourMil = secondMil * 60;
var dayMil = hourMil * 24;
var diff = now - dt;
var days = Math.floor(diff / dayMil);
var daysRemainder = diff % dayMil;
var hours = Math.floor(daysRemainder / hourMil);
var hoursRemainder = daysRemainder % hourMil;
var seconds = Math.floor(hoursRemainder / secondMil);
var secondsRemainder = hoursRemainder % secondMil;
var milSeconds = Math.floor(secondsRemainder / milSecondMil);
console.log(days + ' days - ' + hours + ' hours - ' + seconds + ' seconds - ' + milSeconds + ' mil');

I have done this way:
var dt = new Date(value);
var now = new Date();
var date1_ms = dt.getTime();
var date2_ms = now.getTime();
var diff=(date2_ms - date1_ms) / 1000;
var tm = new Date(null, null, null, null, null, Math.floor(diff % 86400)).toTimeString().split(" ")[0];
return Math.round(diff / (60 * 60 * 24)) + 'd, ' + tm;

How do I get the difference between two Dates in JavaScript?

I'm creating an application which lets you define events with a time frame. I want to automatically fill in the end date when the user selects or changes the start date. I can't quite figure out, however, how to get the difference between the two times, and then how to create a new end Date using that difference.

In JavaScript, dates can be transformed to the number of milliseconds since the epoc by calling the getTime() method or just using the date in a numeric expression.
So to get the difference, just subtract the two dates.
To create a new date based on the difference, just pass the number of milliseconds in the constructor.
var oldBegin = ...
var oldEnd = ...
var newBegin = ...
var newEnd = new Date(newBegin + oldEnd - oldBegin);
This should just work
EDIT: Fixed bug pointed by #bdukes
EDIT:
For an explanation of the behavior, oldBegin, oldEnd, and newBegin are Date instances. Calling operators + and - will trigger Javascript auto casting and will automatically call the valueOf() prototype method of those objects. It happens that the valueOf() method is implemented in the Date object as a call to getTime().
So basically: date.getTime() === date.valueOf() === (0 + date) === (+date)

JavaScript perfectly supports date difference out of the box
https://jsfiddle.net/b9chris/v5twbe3h/
var msMinute = 60*1000,
msDay = 60*60*24*1000,
a = new Date(2012, 2, 12, 23, 59, 59),
b = new Date("2013 march 12");
console.log(Math.floor((b - a) / msDay) + ' full days between'); // 364
console.log(Math.floor(((b - a) % msDay) / msMinute) + ' full minutes between'); // 0
Now some pitfalls. Try this:
console.log(a - 10); // 1331614798990
console.log(a + 10); // mixed string
So if you have risk of adding a number and Date, convert Date to number directly.
console.log(a.getTime() - 10); // 1331614798990
console.log(a.getTime() + 10); // 1331614799010
My fist example demonstrates the power of Date object but it actually appears to be a time bomb

See JsFiddle DEMO
var date1 = new Date();
var date2 = new Date("2025/07/30 21:59:00");
//Customise date2 for your required future time
showDiff();
function showDiff(date1, date2){
var diff = (date2 - date1)/1000;
diff = Math.abs(Math.floor(diff));
var days = Math.floor(diff/(24*60*60));
var leftSec = diff - days * 24*60*60;
var hrs = Math.floor(leftSec/(60*60));
var leftSec = leftSec - hrs * 60*60;
var min = Math.floor(leftSec/(60));
var leftSec = leftSec - min * 60;
document.getElementById("showTime").innerHTML = "You have " + days + " days " + hrs + " hours " + min + " minutes and " + leftSec + " seconds before death.";
setTimeout(showDiff,1000);
}
for your HTML Code:
<div id="showTime"></div>

If you don't care about the time component, you can use .getDate() and .setDate() to just set the date part.
So to set your end date to 2 weeks after your start date, do something like this:
function GetEndDate(startDate)
{
var endDate = new Date(startDate.getTime());
endDate.setDate(endDate.getDate()+14);
return endDate;
}
To return the difference (in days) between two dates, do this:
function GetDateDiff(startDate, endDate)
{
return endDate.getDate() - startDate.getDate();
}
Finally, let's modify the first function so it can take the value returned by 2nd as a parameter:
function GetEndDate(startDate, days)
{
var endDate = new Date(startDate.getTime());
endDate.setDate(endDate.getDate() + days);
return endDate;
}

Thanks #Vincent Robert, I ended up using your basic example, though it's actually newBegin + oldEnd - oldBegin. Here's the simplified end solution:
// don't update end date if there's already an end date but not an old start date
if (!oldEnd || oldBegin) {
var selectedDateSpan = 1800000; // 30 minutes
if (oldEnd) {
selectedDateSpan = oldEnd - oldBegin;
}
newEnd = new Date(newBegin.getTime() + selectedDateSpan));
}

Depending on your needs, this function will calculate the difference between the 2 days, and return a result in days decimal.
// This one returns a signed decimal. The sign indicates past or future.
this.getDateDiff = function(date1, date2) {
return (date1.getTime() - date2.getTime()) / (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24);
}
// This one always returns a positive decimal. (Suggested by Koen below)
this.getDateDiff = function(date1, date2) {
return Math.abs((date1.getTime() - date2.getTime()) / (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24));
}

If using moment.js, there is a simpler solution, which will give you the difference in days in one single line of code.
moment(endDate).diff(moment(beginDate), 'days');
Additional details can be found in the moment.js page
Cheers,
Miguel

function compare()
{
var end_actual_time = $('#date3').val();
start_actual_time = new Date();
end_actual_time = new Date(end_actual_time);
var diff = end_actual_time-start_actual_time;
var diffSeconds = diff/1000;
var HH = Math.floor(diffSeconds/3600);
var MM = Math.floor(diffSeconds%3600)/60;
var formatted = ((HH < 10)?("0" + HH):HH) + ":" + ((MM < 10)?("0" + MM):MM)
getTime(diffSeconds);
}
function getTime(seconds) {
var days = Math.floor(leftover / 86400);
//how many seconds are left
leftover = leftover - (days * 86400);
//how many full hours fits in the amount of leftover seconds
var hours = Math.floor(leftover / 3600);
//how many seconds are left
leftover = leftover - (hours * 3600);
//how many minutes fits in the amount of leftover seconds
var minutes = leftover / 60;
//how many seconds are left
//leftover = leftover - (minutes * 60);
alert(days + ':' + hours + ':' + minutes);
}

alternative modificitaion extended code..
http://jsfiddle.net/vvGPQ/48/
showDiff();
function showDiff(){
var date1 = new Date("2013/01/18 06:59:00");
var date2 = new Date();
//Customise date2 for your required future time
var diff = (date2 - date1)/1000;
var diff = Math.abs(Math.floor(diff));
var years = Math.floor(diff/(365*24*60*60));
var leftSec = diff - years * 365*24*60*60;
var month = Math.floor(leftSec/((365/12)*24*60*60));
var leftSec = leftSec - month * (365/12)*24*60*60;
var days = Math.floor(leftSec/(24*60*60));
var leftSec = leftSec - days * 24*60*60;
var hrs = Math.floor(leftSec/(60*60));
var leftSec = leftSec - hrs * 60*60;
var min = Math.floor(leftSec/(60));
var leftSec = leftSec - min * 60;
document.getElementById("showTime").innerHTML = "You have " + years + " years "+ month + " month " + days + " days " + hrs + " hours " + min + " minutes and " + leftSec + " seconds the life time has passed.";
setTimeout(showDiff,1000);
}

Below code will return the days left from today to futures date.
Dependencies: jQuery and MomentJs.
var getDaysLeft = function (date) {
var today = new Date();
var daysLeftInMilliSec = Math.abs(new Date(moment(today).format('YYYY-MM-DD')) - new Date(date));
var daysLeft = daysLeftInMilliSec / (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24);
return daysLeft;
};
getDaysLeft('YYYY-MM-DD');

<html>
<head>
<script>
function dayDiff()
{
var start = document.getElementById("datepicker").value;
var end= document.getElementById("date_picker").value;
var oneDay = 24*60*60*1000;
var firstDate = new Date(start);
var secondDate = new Date(end);
var diffDays = Math.round(Math.abs((firstDate.getTime() - secondDate.getTime())/(oneDay)));
document.getElementById("leave").value =diffDays ;
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<input type="text" name="datepicker"value=""/>
<input type="text" name="date_picker" onclick="function dayDiff()" value=""/>
<input type="text" name="leave" value=""/>
</body>
</html>

this code fills the duration of study years when you input the start date and end date(qualify accured date) of study and check if the duration less than a year if yes the alert a message
take in mind there are three input elements the first txtFromQualifDate and second txtQualifDate and third txtStudyYears
it will show result of number of years with fraction
function getStudyYears()
{
if(document.getElementById('txtFromQualifDate').value != '' && document.getElementById('txtQualifDate').value != '')
{
var d1 = document.getElementById('txtFromQualifDate').value;
var d2 = document.getElementById('txtQualifDate').value;
var one_day=1000*60*60*24;
var x = d1.split("/");
var y = d2.split("/");
var date1=new Date(x[2],(x[1]-1),x[0]);
var date2=new Date(y[2],(y[1]-1),y[0])
var dDays = (date2.getTime()-date1.getTime())/one_day;
if(dDays < 365)
{
alert("the date between start study and graduate must not be less than a year !");
document.getElementById('txtQualifDate').value = "";
document.getElementById('txtStudyYears').value = "";
return ;
}
var dMonths = Math.ceil(dDays / 30);
var dYears = Math.floor(dMonths /12) + "." + dMonths % 12;
document.getElementById('txtStudyYears').value = dYears;
}
}

If you use Date objects and then use the getTime() function for both dates it will give you their respective times since Jan 1, 1970 in a number value. You can then get the difference between these numbers.
If that doesn't help you out, check out the complete documentation: http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_obj_date.asp

var getDaysLeft = function (date1, date2) {
var daysDiffInMilliSec = Math.abs(new Date(date1) - new Date(date2));
var daysLeft = daysDiffInMilliSec / (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24);
return daysLeft;
};
var date1='2018-05-18';
var date2='2018-05-25';
var dateDiff = getDaysLeft(date1, date2);
console.log(dateDiff);

To get the date difference in milliseconds between two dates:
var diff = Math.abs(date1 - date2);
I'm not sure what you mean by converting the difference back into a date though.

Many answers here are based on a direct subtraction of Date objects like new Date(…) - new Date(…). This is syntactically wrong. Browsers still accept it because of backward compatibility. But modern JS linters will throw at you.
The right way to calculate date differences in milliseconds is new Date(…).getTime() - new Date(…).getTime():
// Time difference between two dates
let diffInMillis = new Date(…).getTime() - new Date(…).getTime()
If you want to calculate the time difference to now, you can just remove the argument from the first Date:
// Time difference between now and some date
let diffInMillis = new Date().getTime() - new Date(…).getTime()

function checkdate() {
var indate = new Date()
indate.setDate(dat)
indate.setMonth(mon - 1)
indate.setFullYear(year)
var one_day = 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24
var diff = Math.ceil((indate.getTime() - now.getTime()) / (one_day))
var str = diff + " days are remaining.."
document.getElementById('print').innerHTML = str.fontcolor('blue')
}

THIS IS WHAT I DID ON MY SYSTEM.
var startTime=("08:00:00").split(":");
var endTime=("16:00:00").split(":");
var HoursInMinutes=((parseInt(endTime[0])*60)+parseInt(endTime[1]))-((parseInt(startTime[0])*60)+parseInt(startTime[1]));
console.log(HoursInMinutes/60);