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Datetime diff in minutes

I have 2 DateTime field in a form, and I want the difference between these 2 fields in minute.
I tried to parse DateTime into Date but it's not working :
<script>
$(document).ready(function () {
$("#mybundle_evenement_button").click(function () {
var field1 = $("#mybundle_evenement_debut").val();
var field2 = $("#mybundle_evenement_fin").val();
var date1 = new Date(field1);
var date2 = new Date(field2);
alert(date1);
});
});
</script>
If I alert() date1, it shows Invalid Date.
But if I alert() field1, it shows 15/09/2017 13:32 (format is : days/months/year hour:minutes).
Is it possible that new Date(field1) isn't working because of the format ?
I know that if I succeed to parse DateTime into Date, it'll be easy to have the difference in minutes, but I don't understand why it says Invalid Date.

dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm isn't a valid date format for Date.parse()
You have to format your date to a valid Date Time String Format, for example:
var field1 = $("#mybundle_evenement_debut").val();
var ISODate1 = field1.replace(/(\d+)\/(\d+)\/(\d+)/, "$3-$2-$1")
var date1 = new Date(ISODate1);
alert(date1) // => Fri Sep 15 2017 13:32:00 ...

The problem is about the format you are getting the date from the field. new Date() don't accepts this format. I think the best is to parse the string yourself. If the format is always the same just use new Date(year, month, day, hours, minutes, seconds, milliseconds).
var day = field.splice(0,2); field.splice(0,1);
var month = field.splice(0,2); field.splice(0,1);
var year = field.splice(0,2); field.splice(0,1);
var hour = field.splice(0,2); field.splice(0,1);
var minute = field.splice(0,2);

It's depend on your browser. I'll suggest to use the standard format is '2013/12/09 10:00'.
Okay! come to the point. You need to manually format the date from my latest answer regarding this same kind of issue. Please take a look at this link : Stange javascript Date behaviour on particular dates
And you could try this below code for getting the date difference in minutes.
var startTime = new Date('2013/12/09 10:00');
var endTime = new Date('2014/12/09 10:00');
var difference = endTime.getTime() - startTime.getTime();
var result = Math.round(difference / 60000);
alert(result);

How do I get the time in milliseconds from 2 different string?

I have the following code which I get from parameters in the URL.
This is what I have in the URL
&dateStart=15.01.2015&timeStart=08%3A00&
After getting the parameters I have the following: 15.01.2015:08:00
Using Javascript how can I parse this string to get the date in milliseconds?
Date.parse(15.01.2015:08:00)
But obviously this doesn't work.
Date.parse(15-01-2015)
This works and I can change this but then how do I add or get the milliseconds from the time??

This is quite possibly the ugliest JavaScript function I've written in my life but it should work for you.
function millisecondsFromMyDateTime(dateTime) {
var dayMonth = dateTime.split('.');
var yearHourMinute = dayMonth[2].split(':');
var year = yearHourMinute[0];
var month = parseInt(dayMonth[1]) - 1;
var day = dayMonth[0];
var hour = yearHourMinute[1];
var minute = yearHourMinute[2];
var dateTimeObj = new Date(year, month, day, hour, minute, 0, 0);
return dateTimeObj.getTime();
}
It will work with the format that your DateTime is in aka day.month.year:hours:minutes.

You can achieve it using Javascript Date Object and JavaScript getTime() Method:
var dateString="01.15.2015 08:00";
var d = new Date(dateString);
console.log(d);
var ms=d.getTime();
console.log(ms);
ms+=10000;
console.log(new Date(ms));
Here is a DEMO Fiddle.
Note: Change your date string from 15.01.2015:08:00 to "01.15.2015 08:00" because it's not a valid Date format.

Check for format
Date() in javascript :
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date
Format allowed :
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2822#page-14

You can try to use moment.js library like this:
moment('15.01.2015 08:00', 'DD.MM.YYYY HH:mm').milliseconds()

Just for the sake of completion, you can always extract the information and create a Date object from the extracted data.
var dateStart = '15.01.2015'
var timeStart = '08:00';
var year = dateStart.substring(6,10);
var month = dateStart.substring(3,5);
var day = dateStart.substring(0,2);
var hour = timeStart.substring(0,2);
var mins = timeStart.substring(3,5);
var fulldate = new Date(year, month-1, day, hour, mins);
console.log(fulldate.getTime());

Reading the date from textbox as a string and converting it into as Date

I am reading the date from textbox by using javascript and trying to convert it as Date object.But my problem is date is converting as month and month is converting as date when converting the string to date.
Example:
03/12/2014 the value in the textbox
Actual Output:
03 as March,
12 as date (Its wrong)
Expected Output:
03 as date
12 as December (I am expecting)
While converting this string to date by using following snippet
var startTime = document.getElementById("meeting:startTime");
date.js
var stringToDate_startTime=new Date(Date.parse(startTime.value,"dd/mm/yy"));
moment.js
var date1=moment(startTime.value).format('DD-MM-YYYY');
In the above even i have used date.js and moment.js files also.But those also did not solve my problem.Please can anyone help me out to get rid out of this.

Try ...
var from = startTime.value.split("/");
var newDate = newDate(from[2], from[1] - 1, from[0]);
... assuming time included ...
var date_only = startTime.value.split("");
var from = date_only[0].split("/");
var newDate = newDate(from[2], from[1] - 1, from[0]);

I am not aware of an implementation of the Date.parse() method that accepts two arguments. You can view the Mozilla Date.parse() method description here Date.parse() - JavaScript | MDN.
It might be worth looking at the question/answer of this question for some more information: Why does Date.parse give incorrect results?
The next best option would be to split the date using String.split() and to rearrange the date parts
var dateStr = '03/12/2014 23:05';
var newDateStr = null;
var dateParts = dateStr.split('/');
if (dateParts.length == 3) {
var day = dateParts[0];
var month = dateParts[1];
var yearAndTime = dateParts[2];
// Rearrange the month and day and rejoin the date "12/03/2014 23:05"
newDateStr = [ month, day, yearAndTime].join('/');
} else {
throw new Error('Date not in the expected format.');
}
var date = new Date(newDateStr); // JS Engine will parse the string automagically
alert(date);
This isn't the most elegant solution, but hopefully that helps.

Parsing Date with javascript in FireFox

I have strange date format like this dMMMyyyy (for example 2Dec2013).
I'm trying to create Date object in my javascript code:
var value = "2Apr2014";
var date = new Date(value);
alert(date.getTime());
example
in Google Chrome this code works fine but in FireFox it returns Null
Can anyone suggest something to solve this problem
Thanks.

How about just parsing it into the values new Date accepts, that way it works everywhere
var value = "02Apr2014";
var m = ['Jan','Feb','Mar','Apr','May','Jun','Jul','Aug','Sep','Oct','Nov','Dec'];
var month = value.replace(/\d/g,''),
parts = value.split(month),
day = parseInt(parts.shift(), 10),
year = parseInt(parts.pop(), 10);
var date = new Date(year, m.indexOf(month), day);
FIDDLE

This fiddle works in both firefox and chrome
var value = "02 Apr 2014";
var date = new Date(value);
alert(date.getTime())
Check https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date

I would suggest using something like jQuery datepicker to parse your dates.
I haven't tested it but it seems you'd need something like:
var currentDate = $.datepicker.parseDate( "dMyy", "2Apr2014" );
jsFiddle
Just be aware of:
d - day of month (no leading zero)
dd - day of month (two digit)
M - month name short
y - year (two digit)
yy - year (four digit)
However if for some reason you really wanted to do it yourself, then you could check out this link: http://jibbering.com/faq/#parseDate
It has some interesting examples on parsing dates.
Whilst not exactly what you want, the Extended ISO 8601 local Date format YYYY-MM-DD example could be a good indication of where to start:
/**Parses string formatted as YYYY-MM-DD to a Date object.
* If the supplied string does not match the format, an
* invalid Date (value NaN) is returned.
* #param {string} dateStringInRange format YYYY-MM-DD, with year in
* range of 0000-9999, inclusive.
* #return {Date} Date object representing the string.
*/
function parseISO8601(dateStringInRange) {
var isoExp = /^\s*(\d{4})-(\d\d)-(\d\d)\s*$/,
date = new Date(NaN), month,
parts = isoExp.exec(dateStringInRange);
if(parts) {
month = +parts[2];
date.setFullYear(parts[1], month - 1, parts[3]);
if(month != date.getMonth() + 1) {
date.setTime(NaN);
}
}
return date;
}

You can use following JavaScript Library for uniform date parser across browser.
It has documentation
JSFIDDLE
code:
var value = "2Apr2014";
var date =new Date(dateFormat(value));
alert(date.getTime());

How to subtract two dates in javascript?

I want to get the difference between tow dates in javascript but my problem is that the first date is the currenet date of the PC :
today = new Date();
and the other date is a text format date like this for example:
other_date = '15.11.2013';
I want the today date to be same format as other_date and then subtract them , How can I change the format of the today to make the same as other_date ? and How I can make them both as date format to subtract them and get the difference correctly???

I would simply use the split function to get the date parts of the date string:
var today = new Date();
var other_date = '15.11.2013';
var dateparts = other_date.split('.');
var otherDate = new Date(dateparts[2], dateparts[1]-1, dateparts[0]); // substract 1 month because month starting with 0
var difference = today.getTime() - otherDate.getTime(); // difference in ms