Difference in Months between two dates in JavaScri

Question

How would I work out the difference for two Date() objects in JavaScript, while only return the number of months in the difference?

Any help would be great :)

Answer 1

below logic will fetch difference in months

(endDate.getFullYear()*12+endDate.getMonth())-(startDate.getFullYear()*12+startDate.getMonth())

Answer 2

Here you go other approach with less looping:

calculateTotalMonthsDifference = function(firstDate, secondDate) {
        var fm = firstDate.getMonth();
        var fy = firstDate.getFullYear();
        var sm = secondDate.getMonth();
        var sy = secondDate.getFullYear();
        var months = Math.abs(((fy - sy) * 12) + fm - sm);
        var firstBefore = firstDate > secondDate;
        firstDate.setFullYear(sy);
        firstDate.setMonth(sm);
        firstBefore ? firstDate < secondDate ? months-- : "" : secondDate < firstDate ? months-- : "";
        return months;
}

Answer 3

I know this is really late, but posting it anyway just in case it helps others. Here is a function I came up with that seems to do a good job of counting differences in months between two dates. It is admittedly a great deal raunchier than Mr.Crowder's, but provides more accurate results by stepping through the date object. It is in AS3 but you should just be able to drop the strong typing and you'll have JS. Feel free to make it nicer looking anyone out there!

    function countMonths ( startDate:Date, endDate:Date ):int
    {
        var stepDate:Date = new Date;
        stepDate.time = startDate.time;
        var monthCount:int;

        while( stepDate.time <= endDate.time ) { 
            stepDate.month += 1;
            monthCount += 1;
        }           

        if ( stepDate != endDate ) { 
            monthCount -= 1;
        }

        return monthCount;
    }

Answer 4

This should work fine:

function monthDiff(d1, d2) {
    var months;
    months = (d2.getFullYear() - d1.getFullYear()) * 12;
    months += d2.getMonth() - d1.getMonth();
    return months;
}

Answer 5

One approach would be to write a simple Java Web Service (REST/JSON) that uses JODA library

http://joda-time.sourceforge.net/faq.html#datediff

to calculate difference between two dates and call that service from javascript.

This assumes your back end is in Java.

Answer 6

function monthDiff(date1, date2, countDays) {

  countDays = (typeof countDays !== 'undefined') ?  countDays : false;

  if (!date1 || !date2) {
    return 0;
  }

  let bigDate = date1;
  let smallDate = date2;

  if (date1 < date2) {
    bigDate = date2;
    smallDate = date1;
  }

  let monthsCount = (bigDate.getFullYear() - smallDate.getFullYear()) * 12 + (bigDate.getMonth() - smallDate.getMonth());

  if (countDays && bigDate.getDate() < smallDate.getDate()) {
    --monthsCount;
  }

  return monthsCount;
}