subtract time from date - moment js

Question

I have for instance this datetime:

01:20:00 06-26-2014

and I want to subtract a time like this:

00:03:15

Answer 1

Moment.subtract does not support an argument of type Moment - documentation:

moment().subtract(String, Number);
moment().subtract(Number, String); // 2.0.0
moment().subtract(String, String); // 2.7.0
moment().subtract(Duration); // 1.6.0
moment().subtract(Object);

The simplest solution is to specify the time delta as an object:

// Assumes string is hh:mm:ss
var myString = "03:15:00",
    myStringParts = myString.split(':'),
    hourDelta: +myStringParts[0],
    minuteDelta: +myStringParts[1];


date.subtract({ hours: hourDelta, minutes: minuteDelta});
date.toString()
// -> "Sat Jun 07 2014 06:07:06 GMT+0100"