Get the time difference between two datetimes

Question

I know I can do anything and some more envolving Dates with momentjs. But embarrassingly, I\'m having a hard time trying to do something that seems simple: geting the differ

Answer 1

If you want difference of two timestamp into total days,hours and minutes only, not in months and years .

var now  = "01/08/2016 15:00:00";
var then = "04/02/2016 14:20:30";
var diff = moment.duration(moment(then).diff(moment(now)));

diff contains 2 months,23 days,23 hours and 20 minutes. But we need result only in days,hours and minutes so the simple solution is:

var days = parseInt(diff.asDays()); //84

var hours = parseInt(diff.asHours()); //2039 hours, but it gives total hours in given miliseconds which is not expacted.

hours = hours - days*24;  // 23 hours

var minutes = parseInt(diff.asMinutes()); //122360 minutes,but it gives total minutes in given miliseconds which is not expacted.

minutes = minutes - (days*24*60 + hours*60); //20 minutes.

Final result will be : 84 days, 23 hours, 20 minutes.