Question

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);

Answer 1

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.