Count days until today moment.js

Question

I have a function that gets the number of days until today. It works however, I am using moment.js to write and format the date from JSON data and I think it is causing a co

Answer 1

If the problem you have is to use moment.js to get the duration between two dates, then you can use the diff function like this:

var a = moment([2007, 0, 29]);
var b = moment([2007, 0, 28]);
var diffInMs = a.diff(b); // 86400000 milliseconds
var diffInDays = a.diff(b, 'days'); // 1 day

Now, I don't know if you have any problem with KnockoutJS, but this should ensure that your computation is done with moment.js.

Just for your interest, I made myself a custom binding handler for displaying a moment date some time ago. The difference with yours is that my observable was already a moment object. So, I've modified it down here to make it work with standard date objects:

    ko.bindingHandlers.moment = {
        update: function(element, valueAccessor) {
            var value = valueAccessor();
            var formattedValue = moment(ko.utils.unwrapObservable(value)).format('MM/DD/YYYY');
            $(element).text(formattedValue);
        }
    };

Edit: I made you a fiddle with the example.