How do I subtract minutes from a date in javascript?

Question

How can I translate this pseudo code into working js [don\'t worry about where the end date comes from except that it\'s a valid javascript date].

var myEndD         


        

Answer 1

Extend Date class with this function

// Add (or substract if value is negative) the value, expresed in timeUnit
// to the date and return the new date.
Date.dateAdd = function(currentDate, value, timeUnit) {

    timeUnit = timeUnit.toLowerCase();
    var multiplyBy = { w:604800000,
                     d:86400000,
                     h:3600000,
                     m:60000,
                     s:1000 };
    var updatedDate = new Date(currentDate.getTime() + multiplyBy[timeUnit] * value);

    return updatedDate;
};

So you can add or substract a number of minutes, seconds, hours, days... to any date.

add_10_minutes_to_current_date = Date.dateAdd( Date(), 10, "m");
subs_1_hour_to_a_date = Date.dateAdd( date_value, -1, "h");

Answer 2

This is what I did: see on Codepen

var somedate = 1473888180593;
var myStartDate;
//var myStartDate = somedate - durationInMuntes;

myStartDate = new Date(dateAfterSubtracted('minutes', 100));

alert("The event will start on " + myStartDate.toDateString() + " at " + myStartDate.toTimeString());

function dateAfterSubtracted(range, amount){
    var now = new Date();
    if(range === 'years'){
        return now.setDate(now.getYear() - amount);
    }
    if(range === 'months'){
        return now.setDate(now.getMonth() - amount);
    }
    if(range === 'days'){
        return now.setDate(now.getDate() - amount);
    }
    if(range === 'hours'){
        return now.setDate(now.getHours() - amount);
    }
    if(range === 'minutes'){
        return now.setDate(now.getMinutes() - amount);
    }
    else {
        return null;
    }
}

Answer 3

This is what I found:

//First, start with a particular time
var date = new Date();

//Add two hours
var dd = date.setHours(date.getHours() + 2);

//Go back 3 days
var dd = date.setDate(date.getDate() - 3);

//One minute ago...
var dd = date.setMinutes(date.getMinutes() - 1);

//Display the date:
var monthNames = ["January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December"];
var date = new Date(dd);
var day = date.getDate();
var monthIndex = date.getMonth();
var year = date.getFullYear();
var displayDate = monthNames[monthIndex] + ' ' + day + ', ' + year;
alert('Date is now: ' + displayDate);

Sources:

http://www.javascriptcookbook.com/article/Perform-date-manipulations-based-on-adding-or-subtracting-time/

https://stackoverflow.com/a/12798270/1873386

Answer 4

Once you know this:

• You can create a Date by calling the constructor with milliseconds since Jan 1, 1970.
• The valueOf() a Date is the number of milliseconds since Jan 1, 1970
• There are 60,000 milliseconds in a minute :-]

...it isn't so hard.

In the code below, a new Date is created by subtracting the appropriate number of milliseconds from myEndDateTime:

var MS_PER_MINUTE = 60000;
var myStartDate = new Date(myEndDateTime - durationInMinutes * MS_PER_MINUTE);

Answer 5

moment.js has some really nice convenience methods to manipulate date objects

The .subtract method, allows you to subtract a certain amount of time units from a date, by providing the amount and a timeunit string.

var now = new Date();
// Sun Jan 22 2017 17:12:18 GMT+0200 ...
var olderDate = moment(now).subtract(3, 'minutes').toDate();
// Sun Jan 22 2017 17:09:18 GMT+0200 ...

Answer 6

You can also use get and set minutes to achieve it:

var endDate = somedate;

var startdate = new Date(endDate);

var durationInMinutes = 20;

startdate.setMinutes(endDate.getMinutes() - durationInMinutes);