What's the most concise, performant way to get in Javascript the minutes remaining between now, and the upcoming day at 01:00 (am)?
Then, once the current time is after 01:00, I start calculating the difference to the next.
in javascript, a specified date can be provided like this
var date1 = new Date('June 6, 2019 03:24:00');
or it can be specified like this
var date2 = new Date('2019-6-6T03:24:00');
javascript can natively subtract 2 dates
console.log(date1 - date2);
//expected 0;
using this method will output the difference in the dates in milliseconds,
to get minutes you'll want to divide the value by 60000;
so
var futureTime = new Date('2019-06-06T07:24:00');
//there must be a 0 infront of 1 digit numbers or it is an invalid date
var now = new Date();
var difference = (futureTime - now) / 60000;
//get minutes by dividing by 60000
//doing Date() with no arguments returns the current date
read about the javascript Date object here for more information
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date
let now = new Date();
let next1am = new Date();
next1am.setHours(1, 0, 0, 0); // same as now, but at 01:00:00.000
if (next1am < now) next1am.setDate(next1am.getDate() + 1); // bump date if past
let millisecondDiff = next1am - now;
let minuteDiff = Math.floor(millisecondDiff / 1000 / 60);
you can you moment.js here
var current = new Date()
var end = new Date(start.getTime() + 3600*60)// end time to calculate diff
var minDiff = end - start; // in millisec
You can calculate by pure JavaScript:
let today = new Date();
let [y,M,d,h,m,s] = '2019-06-04 05:00:11'.split(/[- :]/);
let yourDate = new Date(y,parseInt(M)-1,d,h,parseInt(m)+30,s);
let diffMs = (yourDate - today);
let diffDays = Math.floor(diffMs / 86400000); // days
let diffHrs = Math.floor((diffMs % 86400000) / 3600000); // hours
let diffMins = (diffDays * 24 * 60)
+ (diffHrs *60)
+ Math.round(((diffMs % 86400000) % 3600000) / 60000); // The overall result
// in minutes
In, addition avoid using the built–in parser for any non–standard format, e.g. in Safari new Date("2019-04-22 05:00:11") returns an invalid date. You really shouldn't even use if for standardized formats as you will still get unexpected results for some formats. Why does Date.parse give incorrect results?
I have to subtract two hours passed by the user in the format 'HH: MM' and the result has to divide by the number of feeds on the day and set the exact hours that it should feed.
What the best way to get the difference between 2 hours and divide by the number of meals and get the correct interval to save?
In most browsers, Dates support the subtraction operator, which will return the number of milliseconds between them. Alternatively, you can get a timestamp (the number of milliseconds since the Unix Epoch) by calling .getTime(). This second option may be a bit safer and have broader support, though I haven't found an authoritative source or document to corroborate.
The result will be positive if the Date on the left is after the date on the right and negative if it is before. If you want the difference represented as a positive number either way then you can use Math.abs().
var x = new Date(2019, 0, 1);
var y = new Date(2019, 0, 1, 5, 45);
// NOTE: You haven't specified how to handle "negative" differences
var diff = Math.abs(y.getTime() - x.getTime());
// From here it's simple arithmetic:
var hours = Math.floor(diff / 3600000);
var minutes = Math.floor((diff % 3600000) / 60000);
// NOTE: Differences greater than 99:59 will be truncated!
console.log( ("00" + hours).slice(-2) + ":" + ("00" + minutes).slice(-2) )
As for the rest of your question:
the result has to divide by the number of feeds on the day and set the exact hours that it should feed.
I have no idea what this means. Hopefully the date logic is enough for you to get started.
You simply cannot pass hours, you have to pass Date to know which one is larger than other.
function diff_hours(dt2, dt1)
{
var diff =(dt2.getTime() - dt1.getTime()) / 1000;
diff /= (60 * 60);
return Math.abs(Math.round(diff));
}
var amount_of_meal = 8;
dt1 = new Date(2014,10,2);
dt2 = new Date(2014,10,3);
var result = (diff_hours(dt1, dt2))/amount_of_meal;
dt1 = new Date("October 13, 2014 08:11:00");
dt2 = new Date("October 13, 2014 11:13:00");
console.log(diff_hours(dt1, dt2));
If you prefer to use a library, you can use momentJS => https://momentjs.com/docs/
But I dont think you need to.
If you want to subtract two hours from a certain date you can do it like this /
var x = new Date();
x = Date.parse(x);
x = x - 7200000;
x = new Date(x);
console.log(x);
I have two input dates taking from Date Picker control. I have selected start date 2/2/2012 and end date 2/7/2012. I have written following code for that.
I should get result as 6 but I am getting 5.
function SetDays(invoker) {
var start = $find('<%=StartWebDatePicker.ClientID%>').get_value();
var end = $find('<%=EndWebDatePicker.ClientID%>').get_value();
var oneDay=1000 * 60 * 60 * 24;
var difference_ms = Math.abs(end.getTime() - start.getTime())
var diffValue = Math.round(difference_ms / oneDay);
}
Can anyone tell me how I can get exact difference?
http://momentjs.com/ or https://date-fns.org/
From Moment docs:
var a = moment([2007, 0, 29]);
var b = moment([2007, 0, 28]);
a.diff(b, 'days') // =1
or to include the start:
a.diff(b, 'days')+1 // =2
Beats messing with timestamps and time zones manually.
Depending on your specific use case, you can either
Use a/b.startOf('day') and/or a/b.endOf('day') to force the diff to be inclusive or exclusive at the "ends" (as suggested by #kotpal in the comments).
Set third argument true to get a floating point diff which you can then Math.floor, Math.ceil or Math.round as needed.
Option 2 can also be accomplished by getting 'seconds' instead of 'days' and then dividing by 24*60*60.
If you are using moment.js you can do it easily.
var start = moment("2018-03-10", "YYYY-MM-DD");
var end = moment("2018-03-15", "YYYY-MM-DD");
//Difference in number of days
moment.duration(start.diff(end)).asDays();
//Difference in number of weeks
moment.duration(start.diff(end)).asWeeks();
If you want to find difference between a given date and current date in number of days (ignoring time), make sure to remove time from moment object of current date as below
moment().startOf('day')
To find difference between a given date and current date in number of days
var given = moment("2018-03-10", "YYYY-MM-DD");
var current = moment().startOf('day');
//Difference in number of days
moment.duration(given.diff(current)).asDays();
Try this Using moment.js (Its quite easy to compute date operations in javascript)
firstDate.diff(secondDate, 'days', false);// true|false for fraction value
Result will give you number of days in integer.
Try:
//Difference in days
var diff = Math.floor(( start - end ) / 86400000);
alert(diff);
This works for me:
const from = '2019-01-01';
const to = '2019-01-08';
Math.abs(
moment(from, 'YYYY-MM-DD')
.startOf('day')
.diff(moment(to, 'YYYY-MM-DD').startOf('day'), 'days')
) + 1
);
I made a quick re-usable function in ES6 using Moment.js.
const getDaysDiff = (start_date, end_date, date_format = 'YYYY-MM-DD') => {
const getDateAsArray = (date) => {
return moment(date.split(/\D+/), date_format);
}
return getDateAsArray(end_date).diff(getDateAsArray(start_date), 'days') + 1;
}
console.log(getDaysDiff('2019-10-01', '2019-10-30'));
console.log(getDaysDiff('2019/10/01', '2019/10/30'));
console.log(getDaysDiff('2019.10-01', '2019.10 30'));
console.log(getDaysDiff('2019 10 01', '2019 10 30'));
console.log(getDaysDiff('+++++2019!!/###10/$$01', '2019-10-30'));
console.log(getDaysDiff('2019-10-01-2019', '2019-10-30'));
console.log(getDaysDiff('10-01-2019', '10-30-2019', 'MM-DD-YYYY'));
console.log(getDaysDiff('10-01-2019', '10-30-2019'));
console.log(getDaysDiff('10-01-2019', '2019-10-30', 'MM-DD-YYYY'));
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Also you can use this code: moment("yourDateHere", "YYYY-MM-DD").fromNow(). This will calculate the difference between today and your provided date.
// today
const date = new Date();
// tomorrow
const nextDay = new Date(new Date().getTime() + 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000);
// Difference in time
const Difference_In_Time = nextDay.getTime() - date.getTime();
// Difference in Days
const Difference_In_Days = Difference_In_Time / (1000 * 3600 * 24);
How to find the difference between two dates?
By using the Date object and its milliseconds value, differences can be calculated:
var a = new Date(); // Current date now.
var b = new Date(2010, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0); // Start of 2010.
var d = (b-a); // Difference in milliseconds.
You can get the number of seconds (as a integer/whole number) by dividing the milliseconds by 1000 to convert it to seconds then converting the result to an integer (this removes the fractional part representing the milliseconds):
var seconds = parseInt((b-a)/1000);
You could then get whole minutes by dividing seconds by 60 and converting it to an integer, then hours by dividing minutes by 60 and converting it to an integer, then longer time units in the same way. From this, a function to get the maximum whole amount of a time unit in the value of a lower unit and the remainder lower unit can be created:
function get_whole_values(base_value, time_fractions) {
time_data = [base_value];
for (i = 0; i < time_fractions.length; i++) {
time_data.push(parseInt(time_data[i]/time_fractions[i]));
time_data[i] = time_data[i] % time_fractions[i];
}; return time_data;
};
// Input parameters below: base value of 72000 milliseconds, time fractions are
// 1000 (amount of milliseconds in a second) and 60 (amount of seconds in a minute).
console.log(get_whole_values(72000, [1000, 60]));
// -> [0,12,1] # 0 whole milliseconds, 12 whole seconds, 1 whole minute.
If you're wondering what the input parameters provided above for the second Date object are, see their names below:
new Date(<year>, <month>, <day>, <hours>, <minutes>, <seconds>, <milliseconds>);
As noted in the comments of this solution, you don't necessarily need to provide all these values unless they're necessary for the date you wish to represent.
I have found this and it works fine for me:
Calculating the Difference between Two Known Dates
Unfortunately, calculating a date interval such as days, weeks, or months between two known dates is not as easy because you can't just add Date objects together. In order to use a Date object in any sort of calculation, we must first retrieve the Date's internal millisecond value, which is stored as a large integer. The function to do that is Date.getTime(). Once both Dates have been converted, subtracting the later one from the earlier one returns the difference in milliseconds. The desired interval can then be determined by dividing that number by the corresponding number of milliseconds. For instance, to obtain the number of days for a given number of milliseconds, we would divide by 86,400,000, the number of milliseconds in a day (1000 x 60 seconds x 60 minutes x 24 hours):
Date.daysBetween = function( date1, date2 ) {
//Get 1 day in milliseconds
var one_day=1000*60*60*24;
// Convert both dates to milliseconds
var date1_ms = date1.getTime();
var date2_ms = date2.getTime();
// Calculate the difference in milliseconds
var difference_ms = date2_ms - date1_ms;
// Convert back to days and return
return Math.round(difference_ms/one_day);
}
//Set the two dates
var y2k = new Date(2000, 0, 1);
var Jan1st2010 = new Date(y2k.getFullYear() + 10, y2k.getMonth(), y2k.getDate());
var today= new Date();
//displays 726
console.log( 'Days since '
+ Jan1st2010.toLocaleDateString() + ': '
+ Date.daysBetween(Jan1st2010, today));
The rounding is optional, depending on whether you want partial days or not.
Reference
If you are looking for a difference expressed as a combination of years, months, and days, I would suggest this function:
function interval(date1, date2) {
if (date1 > date2) { // swap
var result = interval(date2, date1);
result.years = -result.years;
result.months = -result.months;
result.days = -result.days;
result.hours = -result.hours;
return result;
}
result = {
years: date2.getYear() - date1.getYear(),
months: date2.getMonth() - date1.getMonth(),
days: date2.getDate() - date1.getDate(),
hours: date2.getHours() - date1.getHours()
};
if (result.hours < 0) {
result.days--;
result.hours += 24;
}
if (result.days < 0) {
result.months--;
// days = days left in date1's month,
// plus days that have passed in date2's month
var copy1 = new Date(date1.getTime());
copy1.setDate(32);
result.days = 32-date1.getDate()-copy1.getDate()+date2.getDate();
}
if (result.months < 0) {
result.years--;
result.months+=12;
}
return result;
}
// Be aware that the month argument is zero-based (January = 0)
var date1 = new Date(2015, 4-1, 6);
var date2 = new Date(2015, 5-1, 9);
document.write(JSON.stringify(interval(date1, date2)));
This solution will treat leap years (29 February) and month length differences in a way we would naturally do (I think).
So for example, the interval between 28 February 2015 and 28 March 2015 will be considered exactly one month, not 28 days. If both those days are in 2016, the difference will still be exactly one month, not 29 days.
Dates with exactly the same month and day, but different year, will always have a difference of an exact number of years. So the difference between 2015-03-01 and 2016-03-01 will be exactly 1 year, not 1 year and 1 day (because of counting 365 days as 1 year).
// This is for first date
first = new Date(2010, 03, 08, 15, 30, 10); // Get the first date epoch object
document.write((first.getTime())/1000); // get the actual epoch values
second = new Date(2012, 03, 08, 15, 30, 10); // Get the second date epoch object
document.write((second.getTime())/1000); // get the actual epoch values
diff= second - first ;
one_day_epoch = 24*60*60 ; // calculating one epoch
if ( diff/ one_day_epoch > 365 ) // check if it is exceeding regular calendar year
{
alert( 'date is exceeding one year');
}
This answer, based on another one (link at end), is about the difference between two dates.
You can see how it works because it's simple, also it includes splitting the difference into
units of time (a function that I made) and converting to UTC to stop time zone problems.
function date_units_diff(a, b, unit_amounts) {
var split_to_whole_units = function (milliseconds, unit_amounts) {
// unit_amounts = list/array of amounts of milliseconds in a
// second, seconds in a minute, etc., for example "[1000, 60]".
time_data = [milliseconds];
for (i = 0; i < unit_amounts.length; i++) {
time_data.push(parseInt(time_data[i] / unit_amounts[i]));
time_data[i] = time_data[i] % unit_amounts[i];
}; return time_data.reverse();
}; if (unit_amounts == undefined) {
unit_amounts = [1000, 60, 60, 24];
};
var utc_a = new Date(a.toUTCString());
var utc_b = new Date(b.toUTCString());
var diff = (utc_b - utc_a);
return split_to_whole_units(diff, unit_amounts);
}
// Example of use:
var d = date_units_diff(new Date(2010, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0), new Date()).slice(0,-2);
document.write("In difference: 0 days, 1 hours, 2 minutes.".replace(
/0|1|2/g, function (x) {return String( d[Number(x)] );} ));
How my code above works
A date/time difference, as milliseconds, can be calculated using the Date object:
var a = new Date(); // Current date now.
var b = new Date(2010, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0); // Start of 2010.
var utc_a = new Date(a.toUTCString());
var utc_b = new Date(b.toUTCString());
var diff = (utc_b - utc_a); // The difference as milliseconds.
Then to work out the number of seconds in that difference, divide it by 1000 to convert
milliseconds to seconds, then change the result to an integer (whole number) to remove
the milliseconds (fraction part of that decimal): var seconds = parseInt(diff/1000).
Also, I could get longer units of time using the same process, for example:
- (whole) minutes, dividing seconds by 60 and changing the result to an integer,
- hours, dividing minutes by 60 and changing the result to an integer.
I created a function for doing that process of splitting the difference into
whole units of time, named split_to_whole_units, with this demo:
console.log(split_to_whole_units(72000, [1000, 60]));
// -> [1,12,0] # 1 (whole) minute, 12 seconds, 0 milliseconds.
This answer is based on this other one.
You can also use it
export function diffDateAndToString(small: Date, big: Date) {
// To calculate the time difference of two dates
const Difference_In_Time = big.getTime() - small.getTime()
// To calculate the no. of days between two dates
const Days = Difference_In_Time / (1000 * 3600 * 24)
const Mins = Difference_In_Time / (60 * 1000)
const Hours = Mins / 60
const diffDate = new Date(Difference_In_Time)
console.log({ date: small, now: big, diffDate, Difference_In_Days: Days, Difference_In_Mins: Mins, Difference_In_Hours: Hours })
var result = ''
if (Mins < 60) {
result = Mins + 'm'
} else if (Hours < 24) result = diffDate.getMinutes() + 'h'
else result = Days + 'd'
return { result, Days, Mins, Hours }
}
results in { result: '30d', Days: 30, Mins: 43200, Hours: 720 }
Date.prototype.addDays = function(days) {
var dat = new Date(this.valueOf())
dat.setDate(dat.getDate() + days);
return dat;
}
function getDates(startDate, stopDate) {
var dateArray = new Array();
var currentDate = startDate;
while (currentDate <= stopDate) {
dateArray.push(currentDate);
currentDate = currentDate.addDays(1);
}
return dateArray;
}
var dateArray = getDates(new Date(), (new Date().addDays(7)));
for (i = 0; i < dateArray.length; i ++ ) {
// alert (dateArray[i]);
date=('0'+dateArray[i].getDate()).slice(-2);
month=('0' +(dateArray[i].getMonth()+1)).slice(-2);
year=dateArray[i].getFullYear();
alert(date+"-"+month+"-"+year );
}
var DateDiff = function(type, start, end) {
let // or var
years = end.getFullYear() - start.getFullYear(),
monthsStart = start.getMonth(),
monthsEnd = end.getMonth()
;
var returns = -1;
switch(type){
case 'm': case 'mm': case 'month': case 'months':
returns = ( ( ( years * 12 ) - ( 12 - monthsEnd ) ) + ( 12 - monthsStart ) );
break;
case 'y': case 'yy': case 'year': case 'years':
returns = years;
break;
case 'd': case 'dd': case 'day': case 'days':
returns = ( ( end - start ) / ( 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24 ) );
break;
}
return returns;
}
Usage
var qtMonths = DateDiff('mm', new Date('2015-05-05'), new Date());
var qtYears = DateDiff('yy', new Date('2015-05-05'), new Date());
var qtDays = DateDiff('dd', new Date('2015-05-05'), new Date());
OR
var qtMonths = DateDiff('m', new Date('2015-05-05'), new Date()); // m || y || d
var qtMonths = DateDiff('month', new Date('2015-05-05'), new Date()); // month || year || day
var qtMonths = DateDiff('months', new Date('2015-05-05'), new Date()); // months || years || days
...
var DateDiff = function (type, start, end) {
let // or var
years = end.getFullYear() - start.getFullYear(),
monthsStart = start.getMonth(),
monthsEnd = end.getMonth()
;
if(['m', 'mm', 'month', 'months'].includes(type)/*ES6*/)
return ( ( ( years * 12 ) - ( 12 - monthsEnd ) ) + ( 12 - monthsStart ) );
else if(['y', 'yy', 'year', 'years'].includes(type))
return years;
else if (['d', 'dd', 'day', 'days'].indexOf(type) !== -1/*EARLIER JAVASCRIPT VERSIONS*/)
return ( ( end - start ) / ( 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24 ) );
else
return -1;
}