How to get time difference between two timestamps in seconds with jQuery?

Question

I want to display x seconds ago based on a MySQL Timestamp.

I found the plugin called timeago

But I cannot find a way to make it display only se

Answer 1

jQuery is just a JavaScript library so JavaScript will just work within your jQuery script:

// specified date:
var oneDate = new Date("November 02, 2017 06:00:00");

// number of milliseconds since midnight Jan 1 1970 till specified date
var oneDateMiliseconds = oneDate.getTime();

// number of milliseconds since midnight Jan 1 1970 till now
var currentMiliseconds = Date.now(); 

// return time difference in milliseconds
var timePassedInMilliseconds = (currentMiliseconds-oneDateMiliseconds)/1000;
alert(timePassedInMilliseconds);