Days Between Two Dates

JavaScriptSource Staff Jan 9, 2006

Use this script to figure out how many days there are between two given dates. Very easy to implement.

Starting Date	Ending Date	Total Days
01-01-2006	08-05-2006

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Simply click inside the window below, use your cursor to highlight the script, and copy [Control]+C the script into a new file in your text editor (such as Note Pad) and save [Control+S]. The script is yours!!!

/* This script and many more are available free online at
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function calcDays(){
  var date1 = document.getElementById('d1').lastChild.data;
  var date2 = document.getElementById('d2').lastChild.data;
  date1 = date1.split("-");
  date2 = date2.split("-");
  var sDate = new Date(date1[0]+"/"+date1[1]+"/"+date1[2]);
  var eDate = new Date(date2[0]+"/"+date2[1]+"/"+date2[2]);
  var daysApart = Math.abs(Math.round((sDate-eDate)/86400000));
  document.getElementById('diffDays').lastChild.data = daysApart;
}

onload=calcDays;

<table width='220' border='1' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='5' align="center">
<tr>
<td>Starting<br>Date</td>
<td>Ending<br>Date</td>
<td>Total<br>Days</td>
</tr><tr>
<td id='d1'>01-01-2006</td>
<td id='d2'>08-05-2006</td>
<td id='diffDays' align='center'> </td>
</tr>
</table>
<p><div align="center">
<font face="arial, helvetica" size"-2">Free JavaScripts provided<br>
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</div><p>

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