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Monica
Monica

Reputation: 615

Date.parse is not working correctly

I have a scenario where I have to parse two dates for example start date and end date.

var startdate = '30-04-2014 05:30:00 PM';
var enddate = '02-05-2014 05:52:36 PM';

But if we alert start date

alert(Date.Parse(startdate));

I will get 1465041600000

but if I alert enddate

alert(Date.Parse(enddate));

I will get 1391602956000

But this is not working properly, because the enddate is larger than startdate, but after parsing we will get larger value for start date. I want to get the difference between these 2 days. Can anybody know a workaround for this?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4582

Answers (5)

Donngal
Donngal

Reputation: 1

I think your Strings are wrong. 02-05-2014 is February the 5th, and 30-04-2014 does not exist.

But there is the Date "04-30-2014" which is April the 30th.

I think that is your problem.

Upvotes: 0

user3559349
user3559349

Reputation: 

Date.parse('30-04-2014 05:30:00 PM') // returns NAN!

I Assume you mean 30th April 2014 and 2nd May 2014 in which case it should be (mm-dd-yyyy)

Date.parse('04-30-2014 05:30:00 PM') // returns 1398844800000

and

Date.parse('05-02-2014 05:30:00 PM') // returns 1399018956000

Upvotes: 2

Mahes
Mahes

Reputation: 57

This can be done in java script itself, try following code

    var x = new Date('your start goes here');
    var y = new Date('your end date goes here');
    var timeDiff = Math.abs(y.getTime() - x.getTime());
    var days = Math.ceil(timeDiff / (1000 * 3600 * 24));

The variable days has diff b/w two days

Upvotes: 0

Richa Jain
Richa Jain

Reputation: 641

var date = new Date(); initialized date from the current time

date.setDate(arrival.getDate()+nights); sets the day of month in date to the day of month in arrival and added +nights.

If today is in May, date is in May, and if arrival is in June, the 2nd line does not set the month in date to June.

Try this:

var arrival = parseDate($('#arrivaldate').val());
var depart = new Date(arrival);
var nights = parseInt($('#nights').val());
depart.setDate(arrival.getDate()+nights);
console.log(depart);

Upvotes: 0

Patrick Hofman
Patrick Hofman

Reputation: 156938

Your date format is wrong. According to MDN:

Alternatively, the date/time string may be in ISO 8601 format. For example, "2011-10-10" (just date) or "2011-10-10T14:48:00" (date and time) can be passed and parsed.

So:

ISO 8601 format: yyyy-mm-dd

Your format: dd-mm-yyyy

Upvotes: 1

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