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What"s the best way to calculate date difference in Javascript

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I doing a function in Javascript like the VisualBasic DateDiff.





You give two dates and the returning time interval (Seconds, Minutes, Days, etc...)







DateDiff(ByVal Interval As Microsoft.VisualBasic.DateInterval, _

  ByVal Date1 As Date, ByVal Date2 As Date) as Long







So what's the best way to calculate the difference of Javascript Dates?



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  1. Tips For AllApril 9, 2012 at 3:34 AM

    Use the Date object like so:

    function DateDiff(var /*Date*/ date1, var /*Date*/ date2) {
    return date1.getTime() - date2.getTime();
    }


    This will return the number of milliseconds difference between the two dates. Converting it to seconds, minutes, hours etc. shouldn't be too difficult.

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  2. Tips For AllApril 9, 2012 at 3:34 AM

    If you follow this tutorial, one way is to use:

    Date.getTime()


    You will find a full javascript function here, complete with date validation.

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  3. Tips For AllApril 9, 2012 at 3:34 AM

    Javascript source code to do exactly that can be found here

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