We Keep Coding

How to get date difference in JS in days (regardless of hour difference) [duplicate]

What is wrong with the code below?
Maybe it would be simpler to just compare date and not time. I am not sure how to do this either, and I searched, but I couldn't find my exact problem.
BTW, when I display the two dates in an alert, they show as exactly the same.
My code:
window.addEvent('domready', function() {
var now = new Date();
var input = $('datum').getValue();
var dateArray = input.split('/');
var userMonth = parseInt(dateArray[1])-1;
var userDate = new Date();
userDate.setFullYear(dateArray[2], userMonth, dateArray[0], now.getHours(), now.getMinutes(), now.getSeconds(), now.getMilliseconds());
if (userDate > now)
{
alert(now + '\n' + userDate);
}
});
Is there a simpler way to compare dates and not including the time?

I'm still learning JavaScript, and the only way that I've found which works for me to compare two dates without the time is to use the setHours method of the Date object and set the hours, minutes, seconds and milliseconds to zero. Then compare the two dates.
For example,
date1 = new Date()
date2 = new Date(2011,8,20)
date2 will be set with hours, minutes, seconds and milliseconds to zero, but date1 will have them set to the time that date1 was created. To get rid of the hours, minutes, seconds and milliseconds on date1 do the following:
date1.setHours(0,0,0,0)
Now you can compare the two dates as DATES only without worrying about time elements.

BEWARE THE TIMEZONE
Using the date object to represent just-a-date straight away gets you into a huge excess precision problem. You need to manage time and timezone to keep them out, and they can sneak back in at any step. The accepted answer to this question falls into the trap.
A javascript date has no notion of timezone. It's a moment in time (ticks since the epoch) with handy (static) functions for translating to and from strings, using by default the "local" timezone of the device, or, if specified, UTC or another timezone. To represent just-a-date™ with a date object, you want your dates to represent UTC midnight at the start of the date in question. This is a common and necessary convention that lets you work with dates regardless of the season or timezone of their creation. So you need to be very vigilant to manage the notion of timezone, both when you create your midnight UTC Date object, and when you serialize it.
Lots of folks are confused by the default behaviour of the console. If you spray a date to the console, the output you see will include your timezone. This is just because the console calls toString() on your date, and toString() gives you a local represenation. The underlying date has no timezone! (So long as the time matches the timezone offset, you still have a midnight UTC date object)
Deserializing (or creating midnight UTC Date objects)
This is the rounding step, with the trick that there are two "right" answers. Most of the time, you will want your date to reflect the local timezone of the user. What's the date here where I am.. Users in NZ and US can click at the same time and usually get different dates. In that case, do this...
// create a date (utc midnight) reflecting the value of myDate and the environment's timezone offset.
new Date(Date.UTC(myDate.getFullYear(),myDate.getMonth(), myDate.getDate()));
Sometimes, international comparability trumps local accuracy. In that case, do this...
// the date in London of a moment in time. Device timezone is ignored.
new Date(Date.UTC(myDate.getUTCFullYear(), myDate.getUTCMonth(), myDate.getUTCDate()));
Deserialize a date
Often dates on the wire will be in the format YYYY-MM-DD. To deserialize them, do this...
var midnightUTCDate = new Date( dateString + 'T00:00:00Z');
Serializing
Having taken care to manage timezone when you create, you now need to be sure to keep timezone out when you convert back to a string representation. So you can safely use...
toISOString()
getUTCxxx()
getTime() //returns a number with no time or timezone.
.toLocaleDateString("fr",{timeZone:"UTC"}) // whatever locale you want, but ALWAYS UTC.
And totally avoid everything else, especially...
getYear(),getMonth(),getDate()
So to answer your question, 7 years too late...
<input type="date" onchange="isInPast(event)">
<script>
var isInPast = function(event){
var userEntered = new Date(event.target.valueAsNumber); // valueAsNumber has no time or timezone!
var now = new Date();
var today = new Date(Date.UTC(now.getUTCFullYear(), now.getUTCMonth(), now.getUTCDate() ));
if(userEntered.getTime() < today.getTime())
alert("date is past");
else if(userEntered.getTime() == today.getTime())
alert("date is today");
else
alert("date is future");
}
</script>
See it running...
Update 2022... free stuff with tests ...
The code below is now an npm package, Epoq. The code is on github. You're welcome :-)
Update 2019... free stuff...
Given the popularity of this answer, I've put it all in code. The following function returns a wrapped date object, and only exposes those functions that are safe to use with just-a-date™.
Call it with a Date object and it will resolve to JustADate reflecting the timezone of the user. Call it with a string: if the string is an ISO 8601 with timezone specified, we'll just round off the time part. If timezone is not specified, we'll convert it to a date reflecting the local timezone, just as for date objects.
function JustADate(initDate){
var utcMidnightDateObj = null
// if no date supplied, use Now.
if(!initDate)
initDate = new Date();
// if initDate specifies a timezone offset, or is already UTC, just keep the date part, reflecting the date _in that timezone_
if(typeof initDate === "string" && initDate.match(/(-\d\d|(\+|-)\d{2}:\d{2}|Z)$/gm)){
utcMidnightDateObj = new Date( initDate.substring(0,10) + 'T00:00:00Z');
} else {
// if init date is not already a date object, feed it to the date constructor.
if(!(initDate instanceof Date))
initDate = new Date(initDate);
// Vital Step! Strip time part. Create UTC midnight dateObj according to local timezone.
utcMidnightDateObj = new Date(Date.UTC(initDate.getFullYear(),initDate.getMonth(), initDate.getDate()));
}
return {
toISOString:()=>utcMidnightDateObj.toISOString(),
getUTCDate:()=>utcMidnightDateObj.getUTCDate(),
getUTCDay:()=>utcMidnightDateObj.getUTCDay(),
getUTCFullYear:()=>utcMidnightDateObj.getUTCFullYear(),
getUTCMonth:()=>utcMidnightDateObj.getUTCMonth(),
setUTCDate:(arg)=>utcMidnightDateObj.setUTCDate(arg),
setUTCFullYear:(arg)=>utcMidnightDateObj.setUTCFullYear(arg),
setUTCMonth:(arg)=>utcMidnightDateObj.setUTCMonth(arg),
addDays:(days)=>{
utcMidnightDateObj.setUTCDate(utcMidnightDateObj.getUTCDate + days)
},
toString:()=>utcMidnightDateObj.toString(),
toLocaleDateString:(locale,options)=>{
options = options || {};
options.timeZone = "UTC";
locale = locale || "en-EN";
return utcMidnightDateObj.toLocaleDateString(locale,options)
}
}
}
// if initDate already has a timezone, we'll just use the date part directly
console.log(JustADate('1963-11-22T12:30:00-06:00').toLocaleDateString())
// Test case from #prototype's comment
console.log("#prototype's issue fixed... " + JustADate('1963-11-22').toLocaleDateString())

How about this?
Date.prototype.withoutTime = function () {
var d = new Date(this);
d.setHours(0, 0, 0, 0);
return d;
}
It allows you to compare the date part of the date like this without affecting the value of your variable:
var date1 = new Date(2014,1,1);
new Date().withoutTime() > date1.withoutTime(); // true

Using Moment.js
If you have the option of including a third-party library, it's definitely worth taking a look at Moment.js. It makes working with Date and DateTime much, much easier.
For example, seeing if one Date comes after another Date but excluding their times, you would do something like this:
var date1 = new Date(2016,9,20,12,0,0); // October 20, 2016 12:00:00
var date2 = new Date(2016,9,20,12,1,0); // October 20, 2016 12:01:00
// Comparison including time.
moment(date2).isAfter(date1); // => true
// Comparison excluding time.
moment(date2).isAfter(date1, 'day'); // => false
The second parameter you pass into isAfter is the precision to do the comparison and can be any of year, month, week, day, hour, minute or second.

Simply compare using .toDateString like below:
new Date().toDateString();
This will return you date part only and not time or timezone, like this:
"Fri Feb 03 2017"
Hence both date can be compared in this format likewise without time part of it.

Just use toDateString() on both dates. toDateString doesn't include the time, so for 2 times on the same date, the values will be equal, as demonstrated below.
var d1 = new Date(2019,01,01,1,20)
var d2 = new Date(2019,01,01,2,20)
console.log(d1==d2) // false
console.log(d1.toDateString() == d2.toDateString()) // true
Obviously some of the timezone concerns expressed elsewhere on this question are valid, but in many scenarios, those are not relevant.

If you are truly comparing date only with no time component, another solution that may feel wrong but works and avoids all Date() time and timezone headaches is to compare the ISO string date directly using string comparison:
> "2019-04-22" <= "2019-04-23"
true
> "2019-04-22" <= "2019-04-22"
true
> "2019-04-22" <= "2019-04-21"
false
> "2019-04-22" === "2019-04-22"
true
You can get the current date (UTC date, not neccesarily the user's local date) using:
> new Date().toISOString().split("T")[0]
"2019-04-22"
My argument in favor of it is programmer simplicity -- you're much less likely to botch this than trying to handle datetimes and offsets correctly, probably at the cost of speed (I haven't compared performance)

This might be a little cleaner version, also note that you should always use a radix when using parseInt.
window.addEvent('domready', function() {
// Create a Date object set to midnight on today's date
var today = new Date((new Date()).setHours(0, 0, 0, 0)),
input = $('datum').getValue(),
dateArray = input.split('/'),
// Always specify a radix with parseInt(), setting the radix to 10 ensures that
// the number is interpreted as a decimal. It is particularly important with
// dates, if the user had entered '09' for the month and you don't use a
// radix '09' is interpreted as an octal number and parseInt would return 0, not 9!
userMonth = parseInt(dateArray[1], 10) - 1,
// Create a Date object set to midnight on the day the user specified
userDate = new Date(dateArray[2], userMonth, dateArray[0], 0, 0, 0, 0);
// Convert date objects to milliseconds and compare
if(userDate.getTime() > today.getTime())
{
alert(today+'\n'+userDate);
}
});
Checkout the MDC parseInt page for more information about the radix.
JSLint is a great tool for catching things like a missing radix and many other things that can cause obscure and hard to debug errors. It forces you to use better coding standards so you avoid future headaches. I use it on every JavaScript project I code.

An efficient and correct way to compare dates is:
Math.floor(date1.getTime() / 86400000) > Math.floor(date2.getTime() / 86400000);
It ignores the time part, it works for different timezones, and you can compare for equality == too. 86400000 is the number of milliseconds in a day (= 24*60*60*1000).
Beware that the equality operator == should never be used for comparing Date objects because it fails when you would expect an equality test to work because it is comparing two Date objects (and does not compare the two dates) e.g.:
> date1;
outputs: Thu Mar 08 2018 00:00:00 GMT+1300
> date2;
outputs: Thu Mar 08 2018 00:00:00 GMT+1300
> date1 == date2;
outputs: false
> Math.floor(date1.getTime() / 86400000) == Math.floor(date2.getTime() / 86400000);
outputs: true
Notes: If you are comparing Date objects that have the time part set to zero, then you could use date1.getTime() == date2.getTime() but it is hardly worth the optimisation. You can use <, >, <=, or >= when comparing Date objects directly because these operators first convert the Date object by calling .valueOf() before the operator does the comparison.

As I don't see here similar approach, and I'm not enjoying setting h/m/s/ms to 0, as it can cause problems with accurate transition to local time zone with changed date object (I presume so), let me introduce here this, written few moments ago, lil function:
+: Easy to use, makes a basic comparison operations done (comparing day, month and year without time.)
-: It seems that this is a complete opposite of "out of the box" thinking.
function datecompare(date1, sign, date2) {
var day1 = date1.getDate();
var mon1 = date1.getMonth();
var year1 = date1.getFullYear();
var day2 = date2.getDate();
var mon2 = date2.getMonth();
var year2 = date2.getFullYear();
if (sign === '===') {
if (day1 === day2 && mon1 === mon2 && year1 === year2) return true;
else return false;
}
else if (sign === '>') {
if (year1 > year2) return true;
else if (year1 === year2 && mon1 > mon2) return true;
else if (year1 === year2 && mon1 === mon2 && day1 > day2) return true;
else return false;
}
}
Usage:
datecompare(date1, '===', date2) for equality check,
datecompare(date1, '>', date2) for greater check,
!datecompare(date1, '>', date2) for less or equal check
Also, obviously, you can switch date1 and date2 in places to achieve any other simple comparison.

This JS will change the content after the set date
here's the same thing but on w3schools
date1 = new Date()
date2 = new Date(2019,5,2) //the date you are comparing
date1.setHours(0,0,0,0)
var stockcnt = document.getElementById('demo').innerHTML;
if (date1 > date2){
document.getElementById('demo').innerHTML="yes"; //change if date is > set date (date2)
}else{
document.getElementById('demo').innerHTML="hello"; //change if date is < set date (date2)
}
<p id="demo">hello</p> <!--What will be changed-->
<!--if you check back in tomorrow, it will say yes instead of hello... or you could change the date... or change > to <-->

The date.js library is handy for these things. It makes all JS date-related scriping a lot easier.

This is the way I do it:
var myDate = new Date($('input[name=frequency_start]').val()).setHours(0,0,0,0);
var today = new Date().setHours(0,0,0,0);
if(today>myDate){
jAlert('Please Enter a date in the future','Date Start Error', function(){
$('input[name=frequency_start]').focus().select();
});
}

After reading this question quite same time after it is posted I have decided to post another solution, as I didn't find it that quite satisfactory, at least to my needs:
I have used something like this:
var currentDate= new Date().setHours(0,0,0,0);
var startDay = new Date(currentDate - 86400000 * 2);
var finalDay = new Date(currentDate + 86400000 * 2);
In that way I could have used the dates in the format I wanted for processing afterwards. But this was only for my need, but I have decided to post it anyway, maybe it will help someone

This works for me:
export default (chosenDate) => {
const now = new Date();
const today = new Date(Date.UTC(now.getUTCFullYear(), now.getUTCMonth(), now.getUTCDate()));
const splitChosenDate = chosenDate.split('/');
today.setHours(0, 0, 0, 0);
const fromDate = today.getTime();
const toDate = new Date(splitChosenDate[2], splitChosenDate[1] - 1, splitChosenDate[0]).getTime();
return toDate < fromDate;
};
In accepted answer, there is timezone issue and in the other time is not 00:00:00

Make sure you construct userDate with a 4 digit year as setFullYear(10, ...) !== setFullYear(2010, ...).

You can use some arithmetic with the total of ms.
var date = new Date(date1);
date.setHours(0, 0, 0, 0);
var diff = date2.getTime() - date.getTime();
return diff >= 0 && diff < 86400000;
I like this because no updates to the original dates are made and perfom faster than string split and compare.
Hope this help!

Comparing with setHours() will be a solution. Sample:
var d1 = new Date();
var d2 = new Date("2019-2-23");
if(d1.setHours(0,0,0,0) == d2.setHours(0,0,0,0)){
console.log(true)
}else{
console.log(false)
}

I know this question have been already answered and this may not be the best way, but in my scenario its working perfectly, so I thought it may help someone like me.
if you have date string as
String dateString="2018-01-01T18:19:12.543";
and you just want to compare the date part with another Date object in JS,
var anotherDate=new Date(); //some date
then you have to convert the string to Date object by using new Date("2018-01-01T18:19:12.543");
and here is the trick :-
var valueDate =new Date(new Date(dateString).toDateString());
return valueDate.valueOf() == anotherDate.valueOf(); //here is the final result
I have used toDateString() of Date object of JS, which returns the Date string only.
Note: Don't forget to use the .valueOf() function while comparing the dates.
more info about .valeOf() is here reference
Happy codding.

This will help. I managed to get it like this.
var currentDate = new Date(new Date().getFullYear(), new Date().getMonth() , new Date().getDate())

var fromdate = new Date(MM/DD/YYYY);
var todate = new Date(MM/DD/YYYY);
if (fromdate > todate){
console.log('False');
}else{
console.log('True');
}
if your date formate is different then use moment.js library to convert the format of your date and then use above code for compare two date
Example :
If your Date is in "DD/MM/YYYY" and wants to convert it into "MM/DD/YYYY" then see the below code example
var newfromdate = new Date(moment(fromdate, "DD/MM/YYYY").format("MM/DD/YYYY"));
console.log(newfromdate);
var newtodate = new Date(moment(todate, "DD/MM/YYYY").format("MM/DD/YYYY"));
console.log(newtodate);

You can use fp_incr(0). Which sets the timezone part to midnight and returns a date object.

Compare Date and Time:
var t1 = new Date(); // say, in ISO String = '2022-01-21T12:30:15.422Z'
var t2 = new Date(); // say, in ISO String = '2022-01-21T12:30:15.328Z'
var t3 = t1;
Compare 2 date objects by milliseconds level:
console.log(t1 === t2); // false - Bcos there is some milliseconds difference
console.log(t1 === t3); // true - Both dates have milliseconds level same values
Compare 2 date objects ONLY by date (Ignore any time difference):
console.log(t1.toISOString().split('T')[0] === t2.toISOString().split('T')[0]);
// true; '2022-01-21' === '2022-01-21'
Compare 2 date objects ONLY by time(ms) (Ignore any date difference):
console.log(t1.toISOString().split('T')[1] === t3.toISOString().split('T')[1]);
// true; '12:30:15.422Z' === '12:30:15.422Z'
Above 2 methods uses toISOString() method so you no need to worry about the time zone difference across the countries.

One option that I ended up using was to use the diff function of Moment.js. By calling something like start.diff(end, 'days') you can compare difference in whole numbers of days.

Works for me:
I needed to compare a date to a local dateRange
let dateToCompare = new Date().toLocaleDateString().split("T")[0])
let compareTime = new Date(dateToCompare).getTime()
let startDate = new Date().toLocaleDateString().split("T")[0])
let startTime = new Date(startDate).getTime()
let endDate = new Date().toLocaleDateString().split("T")[0])
let endTime = new Date(endDate).getTime()
return compareTime >= startTime && compareTime <= endTime

As per usual. Too little, too late.
Nowadays use of momentjs is discouraged (their words, not mine) and dayjs is preferred.
One can use dayjs's isSame.
https://day.js.org/docs/en/query/is-same
dayjs().isSame('2011-01-01', 'date')
There are also a bunch of other units you can use for the comparisons:
https://day.js.org/docs/en/manipulate/start-of#list-of-all-available-units

Using javascript you can set time values to zero for existing date objects and then parse back to Date. After parsing back to Date, Time value is 0 for both and you can do further comparison
let firstDate = new Date(mydate1.setHours(0, 0, 0, 0));
let secondDate = new Date(mydate2.setHours(0, 0, 0, 0));
if (selectedDate == currentDate)
{
console.log('same date');
}
else
{
console.log(`not same date`);
}

Use a library that knows what it's doing
https://day.js.org/docs/en/query/is-same-or-before
dayjs().isSameOrBefore(date, 'day')

How to subtract two different dates from a date/time stamp?

I need to subtract a date like 1/26/2015 from a date-time like 2016-01-27T01:10:57.569000+00:00. From what I've read converting both to distance in milliseconds from Epoch and then subtracting is the easiest way. I've tried using various methods, but all the methods seem to say 2016-01-27T01:10:57.569000+00:00 is invalid data. The method .getTime() works great for the 1/26/2015 format, but it can't read the 2016-01-27T01:10:57.569000+00:00.
How does one go about getting the date/time UTC time into milliseconds?

On a complicated way you can use a regex to extract each part of the date as string and then use them in a new Date with all parameters:
function getTimeDifference(){
var regEx = /(\d{4})-(\d{2})-(\d{2})T(\d{2}):(\d{2}):([\d.]+)/;
var dateString = '2016-01-27T01:10:57.569000+00:00';
var r = regEx.exec( dateString );
var date1 = new Date(r[1], r[2]-1, r[3], r[4], r[5], r[6]); // Notice the -1 in the month
var date2 = new Date('1/26/2015');
var difference = date1 - date2;
Logger.log(difference);
}

I ended up using this. When I call parseDate(), I used getTime() to get the date in milliseconds then subtracted them and converted them to days. For my use case the time didn't have to be down to the second, but if it did, it wouldn't be hard to parse more info from the string. I ran into trouble initially because as a beginner Javascript writer I didn't know why apps script wouldn't accept this format into the date constructor.
function parseDate(str) {
//This should accept 'YYYY-MM-DD' OR '2016-01-27T01:10:57.569000+00:00'
if(str.length == 10){
var mdy = str.split('-');
return new Date(mdy[0], mdy[1]-1, mdy[2]);
}
else
{
var mdy = str.split('-');
var time = mdy[2].split('T');
var hms = time[1].split(':');
return new Date(mdy[0], mdy[1]-1, time[0], hms[0], hms [1]);
}
}

If you are confident that the values in the date strings will always be valid and that the ISO8601 string will always have offset 00:00 (i.e. UTC), then simple parse functions are:
// Parse ISO 8601 format 2016-01-27T01:10:57.569000+00:00
function parseISOUTC(s) {
var b = s.split(/\D/);
return new Date(Date.UTC(b[0],b[1]-1,b[2],b[3],b[4],b[5],b[6]));
}
document.write(parseISOUTC('2016-02-04T00:00:00.000+00:00'));
// Parse US format m/d/y
function parseMDY(s) {
var b = s.split(/\D/);
return new Date(b[2],b[0]-1,b[1]);
}
document.write('<br>'+ parseMDY('2/4/2016'))
document.write('<br>'+ (parseISOUTC('2016-02-04T00:00:00.000+00:00') - parseMDY('2/4/2016')))
Note that the first string is UTC and the second will be treated as local (per ECMAScript 2015), so the difference between 2016-02-04T00:00:00.000+00:00 and 2/4/2016 will be the time zone offset of the host system.

Date comparision javascript

I am facing some problem in comparing dates in javascript.
I have dates in "1-Dec-2014" & "19-Nov-2014" format.
While I compared the dates like
var stDate='19-Nov-2014';
var endDate='1-Dec-2014';
if(stDate < endDate){
console.log('Hi');
}else{
console.log('Bye');
}
In out put it shows me "Bye", but it should be "Hi".
What I observed it this comparison compares the date (initial argument) in respective dates.
I am very new to javascript . I am not getting any way to solve this .
Please help me.

Currently you are only comparing two strings. You should compare the dates like this:
new Date(stDate) < new Date(endDate)
var stDate='19-Nov-2014';
var endDate='1-Dec-2014';
if(new Date(stDate) < new Date(endDate)){
console.log('Hi');
}else{
console.log('Bye');
}

Just like #Arun P Johnny said, you are comparing Strings instead of actual dates. You need to convert you date to Date objects before comparing them. Check this out.

As noted in other answers, you need to convert the strings to Date objects. The best way to do that is to parse the strings using a function like:
/* Return a Date object or NaN given a string in d, MMM y or dd-MMM-yyyy format
** e.g. 5 Dec, 2014
** Avoid conversion of two digit dates to 20th century
** Returns NaN if string is not a valid date
*/
function parseDMMMY(s) {
var b = s.match(/\w+/g);
var months = {jan:0, feb:1, mar:2, apr:3, may:4, jun:5,
jul:6, aug:7, sep:8, oct:9, nov:10, dec:11};
if (b) {
var d = new Date();
d.setHours(0,0,0,0);
d.setFullYear(b[2], months[b[1].toLowerCase()], b[0]);
}
return b && d.getFullYear() == b[2] && d.getDate() == b[0]? d : NaN;
}
This also treats dates like 1-1-19 as in year 19, rather than 1919 which may happen if the values are passed directly to the Date constructor rather than using the set* methods.
Now you can do:
var stDate = parseDMMMY('19-Nov-2014');
var endDate = parseDMMMY('1-Dec-2014');

To handle dates correctly i'll quote Pavel Hodek
The best you can do is use the ISO format: YYYY-MM-DD or YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS
For example:
new Date('2011-04-11')
or
new Date('2011-04-11T11:51:00')
For more Info: MDN | Date
Edit:
For old Internet Explorer compatibility (IE versions less than 9 do not support ISO format in Date constructor), you should split datetime string representation to it's parts and then you can use constructor using datetime parts, e.g.: new Date('2011', '04' - 1, '11', '11', '51', '00')
Note that the number of the month must be 1 less.
Important note:
The "ISO format" solution doesn't work 100% time. String are sometimes parsed as UTC and sometimes as localtime (based on browser vendor and version). Calling toString returns the local time therefore depending on the users timezone in some cases new Date('2011-04-11') will give you 2011-04-10.
Chrome behaves the same as Internet Explorer 9 and Firefox behaves the same as Internet Explorer 10+.
Safe solution is passing string value with Z to be parsed as UTC value e.g. new Date('2011-04-11T10:20:30Z'). Best practice should always be to store dates as UTC and make computations as UTC. Only for presentation they should be presented as local time.
Once you have both dates (after parsing and/or using constructor) you can safely compare them.

function ValidateDate() {
var SDate = document.getElementById('<%=sdate.ClientID%>').value;
var EDate = document.getElementById('<%=edate.ClientID%>').value;
var sdate = new Date(stDate);
var Edate = new Date(endDate);
var alertReason1 = 'To Date must be greater than or equal to From Date.'
//var endDate = new Date(EDate);
//var startDate = new Date(SDate);
if (SDate != "" && EDate != "" && Edate > sdate ) {
alert(alertReason1);
return false;
}
}

How to create a date object from string in javascript [duplicate]

This question already has answers here:
Parsing a string to a date in JavaScript
(35 answers)
Closed 5 years ago.
Having this string 30/11/2011. I want to convert it to date object.
Do I need to use :
Date d = new Date(2011,11,30); /* months 1..12? */
or
Date d = new Date(2011,10,30); /* months 0..11? */
?

var d = new Date(2011,10,30);
as months are indexed from 0 in js.

You definitely want to use the second expression since months in JS are enumerated from 0.
Also you may use Date.parse method, but it uses different date format:
var timestamp = Date.parse("11/30/2011");
var dateObject = new Date(timestamp);

The syntax is as follows:
new Date(year, month [, day, hour, minute, second, millisecond ])
so
Date d = new Date(2011,10,30);
is correct; day, hour, minute, second, millisecond are optional.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date

There are multiple methods of creating date as discussed above. I would not repeat same stuff. Here is small method to convert String to Date in Java Script if that is what you are looking for,
function compareDate(str1){
// str1 format should be dd/mm/yyyy. Separator can be anything e.g. / or -. It wont effect
var dt1 = parseInt(str1.substring(0,2));
var mon1 = parseInt(str1.substring(3,5));
var yr1 = parseInt(str1.substring(6,10));
var date1 = new Date(yr1, mon1-1, dt1);
return date1;
}

Very simple:
var dt=new Date("2011/11/30");
Date should be in ISO format yyyy/MM/dd.

First extract the string like this
var dateString = str.match(/^(\d{2})\/(\d{2})\/(\d{4})$/);
Then,
var d = new Date( dateString[3], dateString[2]-1, dateString[1] );

Always, for any issue regarding the JavaScript spec in practical, I will highly recommend the Mozilla Developer Network, and their JavaScript reference.
As it states in the topic of the Date object about the argument variant you use:
new Date(year, month, day [, hour, minute, second, millisecond ])
And about the months parameter:
month Integer value representing the month, beginning with 0 for January to 11 for December.
Clearly, then, you should use the month number 10 for November.
P.S.: The reason why I recommend the MDN is the correctness, good explanation of things, examples, and browser compatibility chart.

I can't believe javascript isn't more consistent with parsing dates. And I hear the default when there is no timezone is gonna change from UTC to local -- hope the web is prepared ;)
I prefer to let Javascript do the heavy lifting when it comes to parsing dates. However it would be nice to handle the local timezone issue fairly transparently. With both of these things in mind, here is a function to do it with the current status quo -- and when Javascript changes it will still work but then can be removed (with a little time for people to catch up with older browsers/nodejs of course).
function strToDate(dateStr)
{
var dateTry = new Date(dateStr);
if (!dateTry.getTime())
{
throw new Exception("Bad Date! dateStr: " + dateStr);
}
var tz = dateStr.trim().match(/(Z)|([+-](\d{2})\:?(\d{2}))$/);
if (!tz)
{
var newTzOffset = dateTry.getTimezoneOffset() / 60;
var newSignStr = (newTzOffset >= 0) ? '-' : '+';
var newTz = newSignStr + ('0' + Math.abs(newTzOffset)).slice(-2) + ':00';
dateStr = dateStr.trim() + newTz;
dateTry = new Date(dateStr);
if (!dateTry.getTime())
{
throw new Exception("Bad Date! dateStr: " + dateStr);
}
}
return dateTry;
}
We need a date object regardless; so createone. If there is a timezone, we are done. Otherwise, create a local timezone string using the +hh:mm format (more accepted than +hhmm).

Javascript to compare two dates, from strings, begin <= end

I get two strings formated like (Brazilian Format): "DD/MM/YYYY", I need to compare both. Since the first field is the begin and the last is the end,
My validation is begin <= end
Date.new(begin) is generating 'invalid date' even on ISO !

Don't use Date.new. Use new Date(). Because of the format of your date string, I would recommend grabbing each field individually and passing them into the constructor:
var startYear = parseInt(document.getElementById('startYear'), 10);
var startMonth = parseInt(document.getElementById('startMonth'), 10) - 1; // as per Residuum's comment
var startDay = parseInt(document.getElementById('startDay'), 10);
var start = new Date(startYear, startMonth, startDay);
etc. If you're handed a date string, then you can use fuzzy lollipop's method to get each field from the string. I'm not sure if the Date constructor will accept unparsed strings for the individual fields, however.
The, once you have the two dates you'd like to compare, just compare their values in milliseconds since the epoch:
function isValid(start, end) {
return start.getTime() < end.getTime();
}

There's a nice date handling library called datejs which has a parseExact(dateStr, format) method.

you can do this, if you know your date will always be formatted the same way dd/mm/yyyy
today = "23/02/1001";
dateComponents = today.split("/");
date = new Date(dateComponents[2], dateComponents[1] - 1, dateComponents[0]);
but a better solutions is to look at this page there is Datejs which is a good alternative to date processing.

Quick 'n dirty :
function is_valid (start , end) {
return start.split('/').reverse().join('') <= end.split('/').reverse().join('') ;
}
That is, split the date into components, reverse the order join them again and do a string comparison.
Edit: As noted in the comment, of course this won't work if your month/days smaller than 10 are not zero padded.

The new 'hotness' in JS time world: http://momentjs.com/
Fits this use-case as well

Here are all available constructors for date objects in Javascript:
dateobject = new Date(); // returns date of current time stamp
// on the browser
dateobject = new Date("Month Day, Year Hours:Minutes:Seconds");
dateobject = new Date(Year, Month, Day);
dateobject = new Date(Year, Month, Day, Hours, Minutes, Seconds);
dateobject = new Date(Milliseconds);
Pick the one you try to use, but I would go for new Date(Year, Month, Day); in your case.
EDIT:
Note: Monthis zero-based in Javascript, so January 1 2010, will be new Date(2010, 0, 1) and December 31 2011 is new Date(2010, 11, 31).