Difference in Months between two dates in JavaScript

Question

How would I work out the difference for two Date() objects in JavaScript, while only return the number of months in the difference?

Any help would be great :)

Answer 1

If you do not consider the day of the month, this is by far the simpler solution

function monthDiff(dateFrom, dateTo) {
 return dateTo.getMonth() - dateFrom.getMonth() + 
   (12 * (dateTo.getFullYear() - dateFrom.getFullYear()))
}


//examples
console.log(monthDiff(new Date(2000, 01), new Date(2000, 02))) // 1
console.log(monthDiff(new Date(1999, 02), new Date(2000, 02))) // 12 full year
console.log(monthDiff(new Date(2009, 11), new Date(2010, 0))) // 1

Be aware that month index is 0-based. This means that January = 0 and December = 11.