Question

I am looking for some help, trying to compare 2 dates in JavaScript, but haven’t managed to find the exact answer on this site yet.

I am only just starting out with JavaScript and I get the impression that getting the current date\time is not a simple 1 line of code which I thought it would be. I thought I could use a ternary operator but maybe not. I hope I’m wrong but here is my dilemma.

I want to compare 2 dates. If date1 is before date2 then do something. If not then do something else.

• date1: is the current date time. i.e. my system clock
• date2: is a predefined value. I already have this value in the web page: ${expiredDateTime.format(“ddMyyyyhm”) I believe date 2 is a string but I’m no expert on jquery.

Any help with this would be great.

Answer 1

Please try the below code:

var user="12/11/2012/5/30";
var arrdt= user.split("/");
var userdt = new Date(arrdt[2], arrdt[1] - 1, arrdt[0],arrdt[3],arrdt[4]);
var currdt = new Date();
if (userdt < currdt) {
alert("userdate is before current date");
}else{
alert("userdate is after current date");
}