[Celeste Patin]

Hello:

I have 2 dates and times. I would like to know how to calculate the difference in the dates and times. For example, I have

Beginning date & time is 8/30/2012 9:00 AM
Ending date & time is 9/2/2012 1:00 PM.

The answer would be 3.08 days.

Can someone help figure the code out for this?

Thank you.

Celeste

[dabbelju]

Hi CelesteP,

I would suggest to do a getTime() of both dates (you will have a value in milliseconds since midnight Jan 1, 1970. Than you can subtract the values and afterwards do a new Date(milliseconds), which will convert it back into a date.

You can find an example here http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_gettime.asp.

Hope it helps.

best
dabbelju

[support-octavio]

Hi Celeste,

Doing a quick google search you can find many examples to achieve this task:
http://www.javascriptkit.com/javatutors/datedifference.shtml
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/41948/how-do-i-get-the-difference-between-two-dates-in-javascript
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1968167/difference-between-dates-in-javascript

[Celeste Patin]

Hi Octavio & dabbelju:

I will try these and let you know if I have success. When reading javascript instructions such as the date and time functions, I am sometimes confused as to how to include it into a Mobione function.

I will try it–may need some help.

Thanks,

Celeste

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