How to calculate date difference in JavaScript?

Question

I want to calculate date difference in days, hours, minutes, seconds, milliseconds, nanoseconds. How can I do it?

Answer 1

Another solution is convert difference to a new Date object and get that date's year(diff from 1970), month, day etc.

var date1 = new Date(2010, 6, 17);
var date2 = new Date(2013, 12, 18);
var diff = new Date(date2.getTime() - date1.getTime());
// diff is: Thu Jul 05 1973 04:00:00 GMT+0300 (EEST)

console.log(diff.getUTCFullYear() - 1970); // Gives difference as year
// 3

console.log(diff.getUTCMonth()); // Gives month count of difference
// 6

console.log(diff.getUTCDate() - 1); // Gives day count of difference
// 4

So difference is like "3 years and 6 months and 4 days". If you want to take difference in a human readable style, that can help you.