I've got two functions which I can use to get the dates of the past 7 days and formats the into a particular format but it's pretty slow, does anybody know of a better way maybe using a loop or something similar?
function formatDate(date){
var dd = date.getDate();
var mm = date.getMonth()+1;
var yyyy = date.getFullYear();
if(dd<10) {dd='0'+dd}
if(mm<10) {mm='0'+mm}
date = mm+'/'+dd+'/'+yyyy;
return date
}
function Last7Days () {
var today = new Date();
var oneDayAgo = new Date(today);
var twoDaysAgo = new Date(today);
var threeDaysAgo = new Date(today);
var fourDaysAgo = new Date(today);
var fiveDaysAgo = new Date(today);
var sixDaysAgo = new Date(today);
oneDayAgo.setDate(today.getDate() - 1);
twoDaysAgo.setDate(today.getDate() - 2);
threeDaysAgo.setDate(today.getDate() - 3);
fourDaysAgo.setDate(today.getDate() - 4);
fiveDaysAgo.setDate(today.getDate() - 5);
sixDaysAgo.setDate(today.getDate() - 6);
var result0 = formatDate(today);
var result1 = formatDate(oneDayAgo);
var result2 = formatDate(twoDaysAgo);
var result3 = formatDate(threeDaysAgo);
var result4 = formatDate(fourDaysAgo);
var result5 = formatDate(fiveDaysAgo);
var result6 = formatDate(sixDaysAgo);
var result = result0+","+result1+","+result2+","+result3+","+result4+","+result5+","+result6;
return(result);
}
function Last7Days () {
var result = [];
for (var i=0; i<7; i++) {
var d = new Date();
d.setDate(d.getDate() - i);
result.push( formatDate(d) )
}
return(result.join(','));
}
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Or another solution for the whole thing
function Last7Days () {
return '0123456'.split('').map(function(n) {
var d = new Date();
d.setDate(d.getDate() - n);
return (function(day, month, year) {
return [day<10 ? '0'+day : day, month<10 ? '0'+month : month, year].join('/');
})(d.getDate(), d.getMonth(), d.getFullYear());
}).join(',');
}
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Use Moment.js
daysAgo = {}
for(var i=1; i<=7; i++) {
daysAgo[i] = moment().subtract(i, 'days').format("DD MM YYYY")
}
return daysAgo
var dates = Array.apply(null, new Array(7))
.map(function() {
return new Date();
})
.map(function(v, i) {
v.setDate(v.getDate() - i);
return v;
})
.map(function(v) {
return formatDate(v);
})
.reverse()
.join(',');
JSFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/R5dnu/1/
Well, one more won't hurt. Note that dates in m/d/y format are pretty confusing to many.
// Get 7 days prior to provided date or today
function last7Days(d) {
d = +(d || new Date()), days = [], i=7;
while (i--) {
days.push(formatUSDate(new Date(d-=8.64e7)));
}
return days;
}
// Return date string in mm/dd/y format
function formatUSDate(d) {
function z(n){return (n<10?'0':'')+ +n;}
return z(d.getMonth() + 1) + '/' + z(d.getDate()) + '/' + d.getFullYear();
}
console.log(last7Days().join('\n'));
I like as short and efficient code as possible, might not be the best but IMO best of both worlds:
Array(7) // Create empty array of specified length, here a week.
.fill(new Date()) // Fill it with dates of your choice, here today.
.map((today, i) => today - 8.64e7 * i) // Subtract days worth of time times the index
.map(day => formatDate(day)) // format your dates however you like
Based on @adeneo solution, i think we could send the number of days... Not the 7 days solution but this could be a better way:
function LastDays (n, option) {
let arr = Array.apply(0, Array(n)).map(function(v,i){return i}),
weekday = new Array(7);
weekday[0] = "Sunday";
weekday[1] = "Monday";
weekday[2] = "Tuesday";
weekday[3] = "Wednesday";
weekday[4] = "Thursday";
weekday[5] = "Friday";
weekday[6] = "Saturday";
return arr.map(function(n) {
let date = new Date();
date.setDate(date.getDate() - n);
return (function(day, month, year, weekendDay) {
switch(option) {
case 'weekday': return weekday[weekendDay];
default: return [day<10 ? '0'+day : day, month<10 ? '0'+month : month, year].join('/');
}
})(date.getDate(), date.getMonth(), date.getFullYear(), date.getDay());
}).join(', ');
}
document.getElementById("testA").innerHTML = LastDays(3)
document.getElementById("testB").innerHTML = LastDays(5,'weekday')
<div id="testA"></div>
<hr/>
<div id="testB"></div>
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