Time & Date

Here are a few examples of how to get the timestamp in JavaScript.

Calculates the difference (in months) between two dates. Use Date.prototype.getFullYear() and Date.prototype.getMonth() to calculate the difference (in months) between two Date objects. Source https://www.30secondsofcode.org/js/s/get-months-diff-between-dates

Gets the Unix timestamp from a Date object. Use Date.prototype.getTime() to get the timestamp in milliseconds and divide by 1000 to get the timestamp in seconds. Use Math.floor() to appropriately round the resulting timestamp to an integer. Omit the argument, date, to use the current date. Source https://www.30secondsofcode.org/js/s/get-timestamp

Results in a string representation of yesterday’s date. Use the Date constructor to get the current date. Decrement it by one using Date.prototype.getDate() and set the value to the result using Date.prototype.setDate(). Use Date.prototype.toISOString() to return a string in yyyy-mm-dd format. Source https://www.30secondsofcode.org/js/s/yesterday

Subtract the two Date objects and divide by the number of milliseconds in an hour to get the difference (in hours) between them. Source https://www.30secondsofcode.org/js/s/get-hours-diff-between-dates

Use Date.prototype.toISOString() and strict equality checking (===) to check if the first date is the same as the second one.

Use new Date(), setting the date to February 29th of the given year. Use Date.prototype.getMonth() to check if the month is equal to 1.

Use Date.prototype.getDay() to check weekend by using a modulo operator (%).

How you can add time to a Date object and subtract time from a Date object in JavaScript.

Here’s a trick for getting back a formatted month name (like January or Jan).