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Get difference in months and list the months in an array between two dates in javascript

I'm having two dates given below with the format for which I need to get the number of months that are there in between them.I tried Difference in months between dates in Javascript :
but the format is not matching with the one that I have.Can anybody suggest a fix please?
startDate:"2015-09-07",
endDate: "2015-12-30"
Also I need to display the months that are there in between the dates like:
var months=["sept","oct","nov","dec","jan","feb"]

Well, you could always split string and use month like this:
var startDate = startDate.split("-");
var endDate= endDate.split("-");
var MonthDifference = endDate[1] - startDate[1];
So you could for example do this function:
function DifferenceInMonths(startDate, endDate){
startDate= startDate.split("-");
endDate= endDate.split("-");
return endDate[1] - startDate[1];
}
But then we are facing problem where these dates could happen in 2 different years. What if you would try this:
function differenceCalculatedInMonthsByUnix(startDate, endDate){
startDate = new Date(startDate).getTime();
endDate= new Date(endDate).getTime();
var difference = endDate - startDate;
return timeMe(difference);
}
function timeMe(unix_timestamp){
unix_timestamp = parseInt(unix_timestamp);
var date = new Date(unix_timestamp);
var days = date.getDate();
var month = date.getMonth() + 1;
var year = date.getFullYear()
// hours part from the timestamp
var hours = date.getHours();
// minutes part from the timestamp
var minutes = "0" + date.getMinutes();
// seconds part from the timestamp
var seconds = "0" + date.getSeconds();
// will display time in 10:30:23 format
var formattedTime = days + '.' + month + '.' + year + ' at:' + hours + ':' + minutes.substr(minutes.length-2) + ':' + seconds.substr(seconds.length-2);
return (12 * year) + month
}
Not sure did i do that TimeMe() my self or did i find it from stackOverflow so if some one needs credits, pm me.
But yea the idea in this is, that we turn date into unix time stamp, calculate difference, and turn it into months.

The day of the month does not show up properly in javascript (html)

This is my javascript code:
function borrowbook ()
{
var today = new Date();
var day = today.getDate();
var month = today.getMonth()+1;
var year = today.getFullYear();
var input_day = document.getElementById("textbox").value;
var newday = today.setDate(day + input_day);
var fulltime1 = newday + "-" + month + "-" + year;
alert ("Return Date is: " + fulltime1);
}
And the result was not my expected result:
Actually what I want to do is if a user enters a value in 'Days allowed',I want to display the book return date.But I do not know why does the day of the month cannot show up properly.Any suggestion to solve this problem?

When you do:
var newday = today.setDate(day + input_day);
you are setting the value of newday to the return value of today.setDate(...), which is a time clip.
Since *input_day* is the value of a form control, and such values are always strings, the + operator will concatenate the values, not add them.
What you probably want is the date, so:
today.setDate(day + +input_day); // set the new date, converting input_date to Number
var newday = today.getDate(); // get the new date
Also, you should get the month and year after adding the day as it may change their values:
31 May + 1 day -> 1 June

There are three things you need to change.
Here is a working jsfiddle.
http://jsfiddle.net/bbankes/VMn3x/
First, the month and the year may also be incorrect. If today were 31-Dec 2014, your code would not show 10-Jan 2014, but instead 10-Dec 2013. You can rectify this by getting the day month and the year from the renew date instead of today's date.
Second, input_day is a string, so you need to parse it as an integer using the built-in javascript function parseInt();
Third, the setDate() method on a Date object does not return the new date. This is the problem that RobG shows.
The new function is as follows:
function borrowbook() {
var today = new Date();
var day = today.getDate();
var input_day = document.getElementById("textbox").value;
var returnDate = new Date();
returnDate.setDate(day + parseInt(input_day));
var returnDay = returnDate.getDate();
var returnMonth = returnDate.getMonth() + 1;
var returnYear = returnDate.getFullYear();
var fulltime1 = returnDay + "-" + returnMonth + "-" + returnYear;
alert ("Return Date is: " + fulltime1);
}

How to parse date string in jQuery and check if it is in the past

I need to check if the date is in the past. This is what I have so far. JSfiddle here.
var date = "09/12/2013";
var d = new Date();
var month = d.getMonth() + 1;
var day = d.getDate();
var todaysDate = +(('' + day).length < 2 ? '0' : '') + day + '/' + (('' + month).length < 2 ? '0' : '') + month + '/' + d.getFullYear();
if (date < todaysDate) {
alert("in the past");
} else {
alert("in the future");
}
Currently it is saying that the date was in the past, when it should be in the future. I know I need to parse the string as a date, but not sure how.
Help?

With that input format, you can't use a string comparison, because the least significant values are on the left. Note: I'm assuing that date is December 9th, 2013. If you're doing the American thing where it's September 12th, 2013, you'll have to adjust the indexes into parts below.
You could reverse the fields:
var date = "09/12/2013";
var parts = date.split('/');
date = parts[2] + "/" + parts[1] + "/" + parts[0];
...and then do your string comparison (being sure to construct the string for "today" in the same order — year/month/day).
If you're going to do that, you could go ahead and finish the job
var date = "09/12/2013";
var parts = date.split('/');
var date = new Date(parseInt(parts[2], 10), // year
parseInt(parts[1], 10) - 1, // month, starts with 0
parseInt(parts[0], 10)); // day
if (date < new Date()) {
// It's in the past, including one millisecond ago
}
...but of course, if you don't want the expression to be true for one millisecond ago, your string approach is fine.

var date = new Date("09/12/2013");
var d = new Date();
console.log(date>d); // true
var date = new Date("09/12/2011");
console.log(date>d); // false

JavaScript's native Date comparator only works on Date objects, whereas you are comparing Strings. You should parse date into a Date object, and then compare it with d.
//define parse(string) --> Date
if(parse(date) < new Date()) {
alert('past');
} else {
alert('future');
}

Javascript DateDiff

I am having a problem with the DateDiff function. I am trying to figure out the Difference between two dates/times. I have read this posting (What's the best way to calculate date difference in Javascript) and I also looked at this tutorial (http://www.javascriptkit.com/javatutors/datedifference.shtml) but I can't seem to get it.
Here is what I tried to get to work with no success. Could someone please tell me what I am doing and how I can simplify this. Seems a little over coded...?
//Set the two dates
var currentTime = new Date();
var month = currentTime.getMonth() + 1;
var day = currentTime.getDate();
var year = currentTime.getFullYear();
var currDate = month + "/" + day + "/" + year;
var iniremDate = "8/10/2012";
//Show the dates subtracted
document.write('DateDiff is: ' + currDate - iniremDate);
//Try this function...
function DateDiff(date1, date2) {
return date1.getTime() - date2.getTime();
}
//Print the results of DateDiff
document.write (DateDiff(iniremDate, currDate);

Okay for those who would like a working example here is a simple DateDiff ex that tells date diff by day in a negative value (date passed already) or positive (date is coming).
EDIT: I updated this script so it will do the leg work for you and convert the results in to in this case a -10 which means the date has passed. Input your own dates for currDate and iniPastedDate and you should be good to go!!
//Set the two dates
var currentTime = new Date()
var currDate = currentTime.getMonth() + 1 + "/" + currentTime.getDate() + "/" + currentTime.getFullYear() //Todays Date - implement your own date here.
var iniPastedDate = "8/7/2012" //PassedDate - Implement your own date here.
//currDate = 8/17/12 and iniPastedDate = 8/7/12
function DateDiff(date1, date2) {
var datediff = date1.getTime() - date2.getTime(); //store the getTime diff - or +
return (datediff / (24*60*60*1000)); //Convert values to -/+ days and return value
}
//Write out the returning value should be using this example equal -10 which means
//it has passed by ten days. If its positive the date is coming +10.
document.write (DateDiff(new Date(iniPastedDate),new Date(currDate))); //Print the results...

Your first try does addition first and then subtraction. You cannot subtract strings anyway, so that yields NaN.
The second trry has no closing ). Apart from that, you're calling getTime on strings. You'd need to use new Date(...).getTime(). Note that you get the result in milliseconds when subtracting dates. You could format that by taking out full days/hours/etc.

function setDateWeek(setDay){
var d = new Date();
d.setDate(d.getDate() - setDay); // <-- add this
var curr_date = d.getDate();
var curr_month = d.getMonth() + 1;
var curr_year = d.getFullYear();
return curr_date + "-" + curr_month + "-" + curr_year;
}
setDateWeek(1);

No need to include JQuery or any other third party library.
Specify your input date format in title tag.
HTML:
< script type="text/javascript" src="http://services.iperfect.net/js/IP_generalLib.js">
Use javascript function:
IP_dateDiff(strDate1,strDate2,strDateFormat,debug[true/false])
alert(IP_dateDiff('11-12-2014','12-12-2014','DD-MM-YYYY',false));
IP_dateDiff function will return number of days.

Compare day month and year

Good afternoon in my timezone.
I want to compare two dates , one of them is inserted by the user and the other is the present day. Snippet of code :
var dateString = "2012-01-03"
var date = new Date(dateString);
date < new Date() ? true : false;
This returns true, i think under the hood both Date objects are transformed to milliseconds and then compared , and if it is this way the "Today" object is bigger because of the hours and minutes.So what i want to do is compare dates just by the day month and year.What is the best approach ? Create a new Date object and then reset the hours minutes and milliseconds to zero before the comparison? Or extract the day the month and year from both dates object and make the comparison ? Is there any better approach ?
Thanks in advance
With the best regards.
Happy new year

Set the time portion of your created date to zeros.
var d = new Date();
d.setHours(0,0,0,0);

Since it's in yyyy-mm-dd format, you can just build the current yyyy-mm-dd from date object and do a regular string comparison:
var currentDate = new Date();
var year = currentDate.getFullYear();
var month = currentDate.getMonth()+1;
if (month < 10) month = "0" + month;
var day = currentDate.getDate();
if (day < 10) day = "0" + day;
currentDate = year + "-" + month + "-" + day;
var dateString = "2012-01-03"
var compareDates = dateString < currentDate ? true : false;
document.write(compareDates);

A production-ready example based on top of Accepted Answer
Add the following function to your Javascript
Date.prototype.removeTimeFromDate = function () {
var newDate = new Date(this);
newDate.setHours(0, 0, 0, 0);
return newDate;
}
Invoke it whenever you wish to compare
firstDate.removeTimeFromDate() < secondDate.removeTimeFromDate()