Question

I’m working with javascript Date and i’m starting to go crazy 🙂

I want two compare only the year,month, day of two dates. The date are (retrieve from firebug stacktrace):

[Date {Thu Feb 11 2010 12:00:00 GMT+0000 (GMT Standard Time)}]

[Date {Sun Jul 11 2010 00:00:00 GMT+0100 (GMT Daylight Time)}]

In this point i’m trying compare the two dates like this:

if (datepickerBegin == null || datepickerBegin.length == 0 || datepickerBegin != date) {
    //Do stuff
}

This code obvious doesn’t work, which is the simple way of comparing these two String?

I’m trying to convert this var to Date and concatenate into another var the getMonth()+getYear()+getDay()… but
i believe that there is a easiest way.

By the way, why the following line give NaN

new Date(datepickerBegin).getMonth()

but the following line works?

new Date(Date.parse(datepickerBegin.toString())).getMonth()

Answer 1

Try converting the dates to time, using the .getTime() method. If the dates are equal, they will have the same values returned from getTime. This assumes that you’re only using string values for your dates (ie “9/6/12”). If your dates will have time stamps associated with them, then you’ll need to use the setHours() function to set all the time reference to 0 (d.setHours(0,0,0,0);).

Links:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date/getTime

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date/setHours

Example:

if(datePickerBegin.getTime() === datePickerEnd.getTime())
{
  //...do something.
}

Note: If you do end up going the .getMonth() route, then be aware that the function returns the months as zero based numbers, so add 1 to what it returns.