I want to subtract the two different 24 hours time format.
I had tried with following :
var startingTimeValue = 04:40;
var endTimeValue = 00:55;
var hour = startingTimeValue.split(":");
var hour1 = endTimeValue.split(":");
var th = 1 * hour[0] - 1 * hour1[0];
var tm = 1 * hour[1] - 1 * hour1[1];
var time = th+":"+tm;
This code is working fine if second minutes is not greater than the first.but other case it will return minus values.
The above code sample values result :
time1 : 04:40
time2 : 00:55
The result should be : 03:45 (h:mi) format.
But right now I am getting 04:-5 with minus value.
I had tried with the link as : subtract minutes from calculated time javascript but this is not working with 00:00 format.
So how to calculate the result value and convert into hours and minutes?
I would try something like the following.
The way I see it, it is always better to break it down to a common unit and then do simple math.
function diffHours (h1, h2) {
/* Converts "hh:mm" format to a total in minutes */
function toMinutes (hh) {
hh = hh.split(':');
return (parseInt(hh[0], 10) * 60) + parseInt(hh[1], 10);
}
/* Converts total in minutes to "hh:mm" format */
function toText (m) {
var minutes = m % 60;
var hours = Math.floor(m / 60);
minutes = (minutes < 10 ? '0' : '') + minutes;
hours = (hours < 10 ? '0' : '') + hours;
return hours + ':' + minutes;
}
h1 = toMinutes(h1);
h2 = toMinutes(h2);
var diff = h2 - h1;
return toText(diff);
}
Try:
var time1 = Date.UTC(0,0,0,4,40,0);
var time2 = Date.UTC(0,0,0,0,55,0);
var subtractedValue = time1 - time2;
var timeResult = new Date(subtractedValue);
console.log(timeResult.getUTCHours() + ":" + timeResult.getUTCMinutes());
DEMO
This solution utilizes javascript built-in date. How it works:
var time1 = Date.UTC(0,0,0,4,40,0);
var time2 = Date.UTC(0,0,0,0,55,0);
time1, time2 is the number of miliseconds since 01/01/1970 00:00:00 UTC.
var subtractedValue = time1 - time2;
subtractedValue is the difference in miliseconds.
var timeResult = new Date(subtractedValue);
console.log(timeResult.getUTCHours() + ":" + timeResult.getUTCMinutes());
These lines reconstruct a date object to get hours and minutes.
This works better , A fiddle I just found
var difference = Math.abs(toSeconds(a) - toSeconds(b));
fiddle
This method may work for you:
function timeDiff(s,e){
var startTime = new Date("1/1/1900 " + s);
var endTime = new Date("1/1/1900 " + e);
var diff = startTime - endTime;
var result = new Date(diff);
var h = result.getUTCHours();
var m = result.getUTCMinutes();
return (h<=9 ? '0' + h : h) + ':' + (m <= 9 ? '0' + m : m);
}
var startingTimeValue = "04:40";
var endTimeValue = "00:55";
var formattedDifference = timeDiff(startingTimeValue,endTimeValue);
Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/zRVSg/