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how can i count the range between 2 dates without counting the weekend in javascript

i want to calculate the range between 2 dates without counting weekend in javascript. i have some code that already count the range between them. but i'm stuck with the weekend part. date inputed by CJuiDatePicker in YII framework
<script>
function calcDay(dt1, dt2, range){
var msec1 = dt1;
var date1 = new date(msec1);
var msec2 = dt2;
var date2 = new date(msec2);
if(date1>0 || date2>0){
range.val(isFinite(Math.round(date2-date1)/86400000) || 0);
}
};
</script>
86400000 is day in millisecond
thanks in advance

The function you'll need is getUTCDay().
the pseudo code would be as follows:
1 - determine full weeks (days/7 truncated)
2 - calculate weekday/weekend: 2 * result = weekend days, 5 * result = weekdays.
3 - after that, remainder and starting day of week will determine the 1 or 2 additional days
Hope that helps, let me know if you need the javascript,
- John
Edited, as requested. NOTE: tweaked your original for testing, you should spot the needed changes to restore.
function calcDay(dt1, dt2, range)
{
var msec1 = "October 13, 2014 11:13:00";
var date1 = new Date(msec1);
var msec2 = "October 13, 2013 11:13:00";
var date2 = new Date(msec2);
var days;
var wdays;
var startday;
var nLeft;
// neither should be zero
if(date1>0 && date2>0) {
days = Math.round( Math.abs((date2-date1)/86400000) );
wdays = Math.round(days / 7) * 5;
nLeft = days % 7;
startday = (date1 > date2) ? date2.getUTCDay() : date1.getUTCDay();
if (startday < 2) {
wdays += Math.max(nLeft+startday-1,0);
} else if (startday == 6) {
wdays += Math.max(nLeft-2,0);
} else if (nLeft > (7-startday)) {
wdays += (nLeft-2)
} else {
wdays += Math.min(nLeft, 6-startday)
}
}
};

i found my own solution, but i forgot to share it. this is how i make it
function myUpdate(dt1, dt2,range){
var msec1 = dt1;
var date1 = new Date(msec1);
var msec2 = dt2;
var date2 = new Date(msec2);
var diff = (isFinite(Math.round (date2 - date1) / 86400000) && Math.round (date2 - date1) / 86400000 || 0);
var wEnd=0;
if(date1>0 || date2>0){
for(var i=0; i<=diff; i++){
if(date1.getDay() ==6 || date1.getDay()==0){
wEnd = wEnd + 1;
}
date1.setDate(date1.getDate() + 1);
}
}
range.val(Math.round((diff-wEnd)+1));
};
first u should count the different date, then the date1 will be check if it is sunday or saturday. then date1 will be added 1 till the value of date1 is equal to date2. if date1 is/are saturday or sunday, wEnd will gain 1. so u can substract diff with wEnd. hope this can help u guys

Calculate age with Javascript from Bootstrap datepicker [duplicate]

How can I calculate an age in years, given a birth date of format YYYYMMDD? Is it possible using the Date() function?
I am looking for a better solution than the one I am using now:
var dob = '19800810';
var year = Number(dob.substr(0, 4));
var month = Number(dob.substr(4, 2)) - 1;
var day = Number(dob.substr(6, 2));
var today = new Date();
var age = today.getFullYear() - year;
if (today.getMonth() < month || (today.getMonth() == month && today.getDate() < day)) {
age--;
}
alert(age);

Try this.
function getAge(dateString) {
var today = new Date();
var birthDate = new Date(dateString);
var age = today.getFullYear() - birthDate.getFullYear();
var m = today.getMonth() - birthDate.getMonth();
if (m < 0 || (m === 0 && today.getDate() < birthDate.getDate())) {
age--;
}
return age;
}
I believe the only thing that looked crude on your code was the substr part.
Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/codeandcloud/n33RJ/

I would go for readability:
function _calculateAge(birthday) { // birthday is a date
var ageDifMs = Date.now() - birthday.getTime();
var ageDate = new Date(ageDifMs); // miliseconds from epoch
return Math.abs(ageDate.getUTCFullYear() - 1970);
}
Disclaimer: This also has precision issues, so this cannot be completely trusted either. It can be off by a few hours, on some years, or during daylight saving (depending on timezone).
Instead I would recommend using a library for this, if precision is very important. Also #Naveens post, is probably the most accurate, as it doesn't rely on the time of day.

Important: This answer doesn't provide an 100% accurate answer, it is off by around 10-20 hours depending on the date.
There are no better solutions ( not in these answers anyway ). - naveen
I of course couldn't resist the urge to take up the challenge and make a faster and shorter birthday calculator than the current accepted solution.
The main point for my solution, is that math is fast, so instead of using branching, and the date model javascript provides to calculate a solution we use the wonderful math
The answer looks like this, and runs ~65% faster than naveen's plus it's much shorter:
function calcAge(dateString) {
var birthday = +new Date(dateString);
return ~~((Date.now() - birthday) / (31557600000));
}
The magic number: 31557600000 is 24 * 3600 * 365.25 * 1000
Which is the length of a year, the length of a year is 365 days and 6 hours which is 0.25 day. In the end i floor the result which gives us the final age.
Here is the benchmarks: http://jsperf.com/birthday-calculation
To support OP's data format you can replace +new Date(dateString);
with +new Date(d.substr(0, 4), d.substr(4, 2)-1, d.substr(6, 2));
If you can come up with a better solution please share! :-)

Clean one-liner solution using ES6:
const getAge = birthDate => Math.floor((new Date() - new Date(birthDate).getTime()) / 3.15576e+10)
// today is 2018-06-13
getAge('1994-06-14') // 23
getAge('1994-06-13') // 24
I am using a year of 365.25 days (0.25 because of leap years) which are 3.15576e+10 milliseconds (365.25 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000) respectively.
It has a few hours margin so depending on the use case it may not be the best option.

With momentjs:
/* The difference, in years, between NOW and 2012-05-07 */
moment().diff(moment('20120507', 'YYYYMMDD'), 'years')

Some time ago I made a function with that purpose:
function getAge(birthDate) {
var now = new Date();
function isLeap(year) {
return year % 4 == 0 && (year % 100 != 0 || year % 400 == 0);
}
// days since the birthdate
var days = Math.floor((now.getTime() - birthDate.getTime())/1000/60/60/24);
var age = 0;
// iterate the years
for (var y = birthDate.getFullYear(); y <= now.getFullYear(); y++){
var daysInYear = isLeap(y) ? 366 : 365;
if (days >= daysInYear){
days -= daysInYear;
age++;
// increment the age only if there are available enough days for the year.
}
}
return age;
}
It takes a Date object as input, so you need to parse the 'YYYYMMDD' formatted date string:
var birthDateStr = '19840831',
parts = birthDateStr.match(/(\d{4})(\d{2})(\d{2})/),
dateObj = new Date(parts[1], parts[2]-1, parts[3]); // months 0-based!
getAge(dateObj); // 26

Here's my solution, just pass in a parseable date:
function getAge(birth) {
ageMS = Date.parse(Date()) - Date.parse(birth);
age = new Date();
age.setTime(ageMS);
ageYear = age.getFullYear() - 1970;
return ageYear;
// ageMonth = age.getMonth(); // Accurate calculation of the month part of the age
// ageDay = age.getDate(); // Approximate calculation of the day part of the age
}

Alternate solution, because why not:
function calculateAgeInYears (date) {
var now = new Date();
var current_year = now.getFullYear();
var year_diff = current_year - date.getFullYear();
var birthday_this_year = new Date(current_year, date.getMonth(), date.getDate());
var has_had_birthday_this_year = (now >= birthday_this_year);
return has_had_birthday_this_year
? year_diff
: year_diff - 1;
}

function age()
{
var birthdate = $j('#birthDate').val(); // in "mm/dd/yyyy" format
var senddate = $j('#expireDate').val(); // in "mm/dd/yyyy" format
var x = birthdate.split("/");
var y = senddate.split("/");
var bdays = x[1];
var bmonths = x[0];
var byear = x[2];
//alert(bdays);
var sdays = y[1];
var smonths = y[0];
var syear = y[2];
//alert(sdays);
if(sdays < bdays)
{
sdays = parseInt(sdays) + 30;
smonths = parseInt(smonths) - 1;
//alert(sdays);
var fdays = sdays - bdays;
//alert(fdays);
}
else{
var fdays = sdays - bdays;
}
if(smonths < bmonths)
{
smonths = parseInt(smonths) + 12;
syear = syear - 1;
var fmonths = smonths - bmonths;
}
else
{
var fmonths = smonths - bmonths;
}
var fyear = syear - byear;
document.getElementById('patientAge').value = fyear+' years '+fmonths+' months '+fdays+' days';
}

I think that could be simply like that:
function age(dateString){
let birth = new Date(dateString);
let now = new Date();
let beforeBirth = ((() => {birth.setDate(now.getDate());birth.setMonth(now.getMonth()); return birth.getTime()})() < birth.getTime()) ? 0 : 1;
return now.getFullYear() - birth.getFullYear() - beforeBirth;
}
age('09/20/1981');
//35
Works also with a timestamp
age(403501000000)
//34

That's the most elegant way for me:
const getAge = (birthDateString) => {
const today = new Date();
const birthDate = new Date(birthDateString);
const yearsDifference = today.getFullYear() - birthDate.getFullYear();
if (
today.getMonth() < birthDate.getMonth() ||
(today.getMonth() === birthDate.getMonth() && today.getDate() < birthDate.getDate())
) {
return yearsDifference - 1;
}
return yearsDifference;
};
console.log(getAge('2018-03-12'));

This question is over 10 years old an nobody has addressed the prompt that they already have the birth date in YYYYMMDD format?
If you have a past date and the current date both in YYYYMMDD format, you can very quickly calculate the number of years between them like this:
var pastDate = '20101030';
var currentDate = '20210622';
var years = Math.floor( ( currentDate - pastDate ) * 0.0001 );
// 10 (10.9592)
You can get the current date formatted as YYYYMMDD like this:
var now = new Date();
var currentDate = [
now.getFullYear(),
('0' + (now.getMonth() + 1) ).slice(-2),
('0' + now.getDate() ).slice(-2),
].join('');

To test whether the birthday already passed or not, I define a helper function Date.prototype.getDoY, which effectively returns the day number of the year. The rest is pretty self-explanatory.
Date.prototype.getDoY = function() {
var onejan = new Date(this.getFullYear(), 0, 1);
return Math.floor(((this - onejan) / 86400000) + 1);
};
function getAge(birthDate) {
function isLeap(year) {
return year % 4 == 0 && (year % 100 != 0 || year % 400 == 0);
}
var now = new Date(),
age = now.getFullYear() - birthDate.getFullYear(),
doyNow = now.getDoY(),
doyBirth = birthDate.getDoY();
// normalize day-of-year in leap years
if (isLeap(now.getFullYear()) && doyNow > 58 && doyBirth > 59)
doyNow--;
if (isLeap(birthDate.getFullYear()) && doyNow > 58 && doyBirth > 59)
doyBirth--;
if (doyNow <= doyBirth)
age--; // birthday not yet passed this year, so -1
return age;
};
var myBirth = new Date(2001, 6, 4);
console.log(getAge(myBirth));

I just had to write this function for myself - the accepted answer is fairly good but IMO could use some cleanup. This takes a unix timestamp for dob because that was my requirement but could be quickly adapted to use a string:
var getAge = function(dob) {
var measureDays = function(dateObj) {
return 31*dateObj.getMonth()+dateObj.getDate();
},
d = new Date(dob*1000),
now = new Date();
return now.getFullYear() - d.getFullYear() - (measureDays(now) < measureDays(d));
}
Notice I've used a flat value of 31 in my measureDays function. All the calculation cares about is that the "day-of-year" be a monotonically increasing measure of the timestamp.
If using a javascript timestamp or string, obviously you'll want to remove the factor of 1000.

function getAge(dateString) {
var dates = dateString.split("-");
var d = new Date();
var userday = dates[0];
var usermonth = dates[1];
var useryear = dates[2];
var curday = d.getDate();
var curmonth = d.getMonth()+1;
var curyear = d.getFullYear();
var age = curyear - useryear;
if((curmonth < usermonth) || ( (curmonth == usermonth) && curday < userday )){
age--;
}
return age;
}
To get the age when european date has entered:
getAge('16-03-1989')

I've checked the examples showed before and they didn't worked in all cases, and because of this i made a script of my own. I tested this, and it works perfectly.
function getAge(birth) {
var today = new Date();
var curr_date = today.getDate();
var curr_month = today.getMonth() + 1;
var curr_year = today.getFullYear();
var pieces = birth.split('/');
var birth_date = pieces[0];
var birth_month = pieces[1];
var birth_year = pieces[2];
if (curr_month == birth_month && curr_date >= birth_date) return parseInt(curr_year-birth_year);
if (curr_month == birth_month && curr_date < birth_date) return parseInt(curr_year-birth_year-1);
if (curr_month > birth_month) return parseInt(curr_year-birth_year);
if (curr_month < birth_month) return parseInt(curr_year-birth_year-1);
}
var age = getAge('18/01/2011');
alert(age);

Get the age (years, months and days) from the date of birth with javascript
Function calcularEdad (years, months and days)
function calcularEdad(fecha) {
// Si la fecha es correcta, calculamos la edad
if (typeof fecha != "string" && fecha && esNumero(fecha.getTime())) {
fecha = formatDate(fecha, "yyyy-MM-dd");
}
var values = fecha.split("-");
var dia = values[2];
var mes = values[1];
var ano = values[0];
// cogemos los valores actuales
var fecha_hoy = new Date();
var ahora_ano = fecha_hoy.getYear();
var ahora_mes = fecha_hoy.getMonth() + 1;
var ahora_dia = fecha_hoy.getDate();
// realizamos el calculo
var edad = (ahora_ano + 1900) - ano;
if (ahora_mes < mes) {
edad--;
}
if ((mes == ahora_mes) && (ahora_dia < dia)) {
edad--;
}
if (edad > 1900) {
edad -= 1900;
}
// calculamos los meses
var meses = 0;
if (ahora_mes > mes && dia > ahora_dia)
meses = ahora_mes - mes - 1;
else if (ahora_mes > mes)
meses = ahora_mes - mes
if (ahora_mes < mes && dia < ahora_dia)
meses = 12 - (mes - ahora_mes);
else if (ahora_mes < mes)
meses = 12 - (mes - ahora_mes + 1);
if (ahora_mes == mes && dia > ahora_dia)
meses = 11;
// calculamos los dias
var dias = 0;
if (ahora_dia > dia)
dias = ahora_dia - dia;
if (ahora_dia < dia) {
ultimoDiaMes = new Date(ahora_ano, ahora_mes - 1, 0);
dias = ultimoDiaMes.getDate() - (dia - ahora_dia);
}
return edad + " años, " + meses + " meses y " + dias + " días";
}
Function esNumero
function esNumero(strNumber) {
if (strNumber == null) return false;
if (strNumber == undefined) return false;
if (typeof strNumber === "number" && !isNaN(strNumber)) return true;
if (strNumber == "") return false;
if (strNumber === "") return false;
var psInt, psFloat;
psInt = parseInt(strNumber);
psFloat = parseFloat(strNumber);
return !isNaN(strNumber) && !isNaN(psFloat);
}

One more possible solution with moment.js:
var moment = require('moment');
var startDate = new Date();
var endDate = new Date();
endDate.setDate(endDate.getFullYear() + 5); // Add 5 years to second date
console.log(moment.duration(endDate - startDate).years()); // This should returns 5

I am a bit too late but I found this to be the simplest way to calculate a birth date.
Hopefully this will help.
function init() {
writeYears("myage", 0, Age());
}
function Age() {
var birthday = new Date(1997, 02, 01), //Year, month-1 , day.
today = new Date(),
one_year = 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24 * 365;
return Math.floor((today.getTime() - birthday.getTime()) / one_year);
}
function writeYears(id, current, maximum) {
document.getElementById(id).innerHTML = current;
if (current < maximum) {
setTimeout(function() {
writeYears(id, ++current, maximum);
}, Math.sin(current / maximum) * 200);
}
}
init()
<span id="myage"></span>

Works perfect for me, guys.
getAge(birthday) {
const millis = Date.now() - Date.parse(birthday);
return new Date(millis).getFullYear() - 1970;
}

I know this is a very old thread but I wanted to put in this implementation that I wrote for finding the age which I believe is much more accurate.
var getAge = function(year,month,date){
var today = new Date();
var dob = new Date();
dob.setFullYear(year);
dob.setMonth(month-1);
dob.setDate(date);
var timeDiff = today.valueOf() - dob.valueOf();
var milliInDay = 24*60*60*1000;
var noOfDays = timeDiff / milliInDay;
var daysInYear = 365.242;
return ( noOfDays / daysInYear ) ;
}
Ofcourse you could adapt this to fit in other formats of getting the parameters. Hope this helps someone looking for a better solution.

I used this approach using logic instead of math.
It's precise and quick.
The parameters are the year, month and day of the person's birthday.
It returns the person's age as an integer.
function calculateAge(year, month, day) {
var currentDate = new Date();
var currentYear = currentDate.getFullYear();
var currentMonth = currentDate.getUTCMonth() + 1;
var currentDay = currentDate.getUTCDate();
// You need to treat the cases where the year, month or day hasn't arrived yet.
var age = currentYear - year;
if (currentMonth > month) {
return age;
} else {
if (currentDay >= day) {
return age;
} else {
age--;
return age;
}
}
}

Adopting from naveen's and original OP's posts I ended up with a reusable method stub that accepts both strings and / or JS Date objects.
I named it gregorianAge() because this calculation gives exactly how we denote age using Gregorian calendar. i.e. Not counting the end year if month and day is before the month and day of the birth year.
/**
* Calculates human age in years given a birth day. Optionally ageAtDate
* can be provided to calculate age at a specific date
*
* #param string|Date Object birthDate
* #param string|Date Object ageAtDate optional
* #returns integer Age between birthday and a given date or today
*/
function gregorianAge(birthDate, ageAtDate) {
// convert birthDate to date object if already not
if (Object.prototype.toString.call(birthDate) !== '[object Date]')
birthDate = new Date(birthDate);
// use today's date if ageAtDate is not provided
if (typeof ageAtDate == "undefined")
ageAtDate = new Date();
// convert ageAtDate to date object if already not
else if (Object.prototype.toString.call(ageAtDate) !== '[object Date]')
ageAtDate = new Date(ageAtDate);
// if conversion to date object fails return null
if (ageAtDate == null || birthDate == null)
return null;
var _m = ageAtDate.getMonth() - birthDate.getMonth();
// answer: ageAt year minus birth year less one (1) if month and day of
// ageAt year is before month and day of birth year
return (ageAtDate.getFullYear()) - birthDate.getFullYear()
- ((_m < 0 || (_m === 0 && ageAtDate.getDate() < birthDate.getDate())) ? 1 : 0)
}
// Below is for the attached snippet
function showAge() {
$('#age').text(gregorianAge($('#dob').val()))
}
$(function() {
$(".datepicker").datepicker();
showAge();
});
<link rel="stylesheet" href="//code.jquery.com/ui/1.11.4/themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.css">
<script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
<script src="//code.jquery.com/ui/1.11.4/jquery-ui.js"></script>
DOB:
<input name="dob" value="12/31/1970" id="dob" class="datepicker" onChange="showAge()" /> AGE: <span id="age"><span>

Two more options:
// Int Age to Date as string YYY-mm-dd
function age_to_date(age)
{
try {
var d = new Date();
var new_d = '';
d.setFullYear(d.getFullYear() - Math.abs(age));
new_d = d.getFullYear() + '-' + d.getMonth() + '-' + d.getDate();
return new_d;
} catch(err) {
console.log(err.message);
}
}
// Date string (YYY-mm-dd) to Int age (years old)
function date_to_age(date)
{
try {
var today = new Date();
var d = new Date(date);
var year = today.getFullYear() - d.getFullYear();
var month = today.getMonth() - d.getMonth();
var day = today.getDate() - d.getDate();
var carry = 0;
if (year < 0)
return 0;
if (month <= 0 && day <= 0)
carry -= 1;
var age = parseInt(year);
age += carry;
return Math.abs(age);
} catch(err) {
console.log(err.message);
}
}

I've did some updated to one previous answer.
var calculateAge = function(dob) {
var days = function(date) {
return 31*date.getMonth() + date.getDate();
},
d = new Date(dob*1000),
now = new Date();
return now.getFullYear() - d.getFullYear() - ( measureDays(now) < measureDays(d));
}
I hope that helps :D

here is a simple way of calculating age:
//dob date dd/mm/yy
var d = 01/01/1990
//today
//date today string format
var today = new Date(); // i.e wed 04 may 2016 15:12:09 GMT
//todays year
var todayYear = today.getFullYear();
// today month
var todayMonth = today.getMonth();
//today date
var todayDate = today.getDate();
//dob
//dob parsed as date format
var dob = new Date(d);
// dob year
var dobYear = dob.getFullYear();
// dob month
var dobMonth = dob.getMonth();
//dob date
var dobDate = dob.getDate();
var yearsDiff = todayYear - dobYear ;
var age;
if ( todayMonth < dobMonth )
{
age = yearsDiff - 1;
}
else if ( todayMonth > dobMonth )
{
age = yearsDiff ;
}
else //if today month = dob month
{ if ( todayDate < dobDate )
{
age = yearsDiff - 1;
}
else
{
age = yearsDiff;
}
}

var now = DateTime.Now;
var age = DateTime.Now.Year - dob.Year;
if (now.Month < dob.Month || now.Month == dob.Month && now.Day < dob.Day) age--;

You may use this for age restriction in your form -
function dobvalidator(birthDateString){
strs = birthDateString.split("-");
var dd = strs[0];
var mm = strs[1];
var yy = strs[2];
var d = new Date();
var ds = d.getDate();
var ms = d.getMonth();
var ys = d.getFullYear();
var accepted_age = 18;
var days = ((accepted_age * 12) * 30) + (ms * 30) + ds;
var age = (((ys - yy) * 12) * 30) + ((12 - mm) * 30) + parseInt(30 - dd);
if((days - age) <= '0'){
console.log((days - age));
alert('You are at-least ' + accepted_age);
}else{
console.log((days - age));
alert('You are not at-least ' + accepted_age);
}
}

This is my modification:
function calculate_age(date) {
var today = new Date();
var today_month = today.getMonth() + 1; //STRANGE NUMBERING //January is 0!
var age = today.getYear() - date.getYear();
if ((today_month > date.getMonth() || ((today_month == date.getMonth()) && (today.getDate() < date.getDate())))) {
age--;
}
return age;
};

I believe that sometimes the readability is more important in this case. Unless we are validating 1000s of fields, this should be accurate and fast enough:
function is18orOlder(dateString) {
const dob = new Date(dateString);
const dobPlus18 = new Date(dob.getFullYear() + 18, dob.getMonth(), dob.getDate());
return dobPlus18 .valueOf() <= Date.now();
}
// Testing:
console.log(is18orOlder('01/01/1910')); // true
console.log(is18orOlder('01/01/2050')); // false
// When I'm posting this on 10/02/2020, so:
console.log(is18orOlder('10/08/2002')); // true
console.log(is18orOlder('10/19/2002')) // false
I like this approach instead of using a constant for how many ms are in a year, and later messing with the leap years, etc. Just letting the built-in Date to do the job.
Update, posting this snippet since one may found it useful. Since I'm enforcing a mask on the input field, to have the format of mm/dd/yyyy and already validating if the date is valid, in my case, this works too to validate 18+ years:
function is18orOlder(dateString) {
const [month, date, year] = value.split('/');
return new Date(+year + 13, +month, +date).valueOf() <= Date.now();
}

how to compare a user entered date to the current date and change a fields background color?

I am new to javascript and am working on a fallible PDF form and trying to set it to do multiple things. The first is I need to compare a user entered date to the current date to see if it is withing 5 years to the day. The second thing I need it to do is to change a fields background color if that date is at the 5 year time or outside of that range. This is the code I have been trying but it hasn't worked so far. There are 37 fields that need to be checked by this.
for(i=1;i<38;i++){
var Y = d.getFullYear();
var d = new Date();
var M = d.getMonth();
var d = new Date();
var D = d.getDay(); //n =2
var strDate = this.getField("Text"+[i]).value;
var arrDate = strDate.split('/');
var month = arrDate[0];
var day = arrDate[1];
var year = arrDate[2];
if(year+5>=Y){
if(M<=month){
if(D<=day){
this.getField("Text[i]").fillColor=color.red;
}}}}

I have updated this, it working now, can you try this now ?
for(i=1;i<38;i++)
{
var todayDate = new Date();
var strDate = "12/25/2009";
var arrDate = strDate.split('/');
var month = arrDate[0];
var day = arrDate[1];
var year = parseInt(arrDate[2]) + 5;
var userEnteredDate = new Date(year, month, day);
if(userEnteredDate <= todayDate)
{
//Color change code here...
}
}

The simplest approach so far as I know, is to instantiate a Date that is five years ago based on current time:
var t = new Date()
t.setFullYear(t.getFullYear() - 5) // t is five years ago
Then you just need to substract the user input date with this one, and see if the result is positive or negative:
var ut = new Date("......") // the Date instance from user input
if(ut - t >= 0) {
// within 5 years
} else {
// more than 5 years ago
}
The reason you can do so, is because when you substract two Date instances one another, they will be internally converted to timestamps. The less a timestamp is, the earlier the time is. So the result of substraction (a number) represents the time in between, in milliseconds.
If you don't care how long in between, you could just compare them:
var ut = new Date("......") // the Date instance from user input
if(ut >= t) {
// within 5 years
} else {
// more than 5 years ago
}

Try this
var d = new Date(),
Y = d.getFullYear(),
M = d.getMonth() + 1, // since this returns 0 - 11
D = d.getDay() + 1, // since this returns 0 - 30
strDate,
arrDate,
month,
day,
year;
for(var i = 1; i < 38; i++) {
strDate = this.getField("Text" + i).value;
arrDate = strDate.split('/');
month = parseInt(arrDate[0], 10);
day = parseInt(arrDate[1], 10);
year = parseInt(arrDate[2], 10);
if (((Y + 5) * 12 + M < year * 12 + month) || ((Y + 5) * 12 + M === year * 12 + month && D < day)) {
this.getField("Text" + i).fillColor = color.red;
}
}

JavaScript - get the first day of the week from current date

I need the fastest way to get the first day of the week. For example: today is the 11th of November, and a Thursday; and I want the first day of this week, which is the 8th of November, and a Monday. I need the fastest method for MongoDB map function, any ideas?

Using the getDay method of Date objects, you can know the number of day of the week (being 0=Sunday, 1=Monday, etc).
You can then subtract that number of days plus one, for example:
function getMonday(d) {
d = new Date(d);
var day = d.getDay(),
diff = d.getDate() - day + (day == 0 ? -6:1); // adjust when day is sunday
return new Date(d.setDate(diff));
}
getMonday(new Date()); // Mon Nov 08 2010

Not sure how it compares for performance, but this works.
var today = new Date();
var day = today.getDay() || 7; // Get current day number, converting Sun. to 7
if( day !== 1 ) // Only manipulate the date if it isn't Mon.
today.setHours(-24 * (day - 1)); // Set the hours to day number minus 1
// multiplied by negative 24
alert(today); // will be Monday
Or as a function:
# modifies _date_
function setToMonday( date ) {
var day = date.getDay() || 7;
if( day !== 1 )
date.setHours(-24 * (day - 1));
return date;
}
setToMonday(new Date());

CMS's answer is correct but assumes that Monday is the first day of the week.
Chandler Zwolle's answer is correct but fiddles with the Date prototype.
Other answers that add/subtract hours/minutes/seconds/milliseconds are wrong because not all days have 24 hours.
The function below is correct and takes a date as first parameter and the desired first day of the week as second parameter (0 for Sunday, 1 for Monday, etc.). Note: the hour, minutes and seconds are set to 0 to have the beginning of the day.
function firstDayOfWeek(dateObject, firstDayOfWeekIndex) {
const dayOfWeek = dateObject.getDay(),
firstDayOfWeek = new Date(dateObject),
diff = dayOfWeek >= firstDayOfWeekIndex ?
dayOfWeek - firstDayOfWeekIndex :
6 - dayOfWeek
firstDayOfWeek.setDate(dateObject.getDate() - diff)
firstDayOfWeek.setHours(0,0,0,0)
return firstDayOfWeek
}
// August 18th was a Saturday
let lastMonday = firstDayOfWeek(new Date('August 18, 2018 03:24:00'), 1)
// outputs something like "Mon Aug 13 2018 00:00:00 GMT+0200"
// (may vary according to your time zone)
document.write(lastMonday)

First / Last Day of The Week
To get the upcoming first day of the week, you can use something like so:
function getUpcomingSunday() {
const date = new Date();
const today = date.getDate();
const currentDay = date.getDay();
const newDate = date.setDate(today - currentDay + 7);
return new Date(newDate);
}
console.log(getUpcomingSunday());
Or to get the latest first day:
function getLastSunday() {
const date = new Date();
const today = date.getDate();
const currentDay = date.getDay();
const newDate = date.setDate(today - (currentDay || 7));
return new Date(newDate);
}
console.log(getLastSunday());
* Depending on your time zone, the beginning of the week doesn't has to start on Sunday, it can start on Friday, Saturday, Monday or any other day your machine is set to. Those methods will account for that.
* You can also format it using toISOString method like so: getLastSunday().toISOString()

Check out Date.js
Date.today().previous().monday()

var dt = new Date(); // current date of week
var currentWeekDay = dt.getDay();
var lessDays = currentWeekDay == 0 ? 6 : currentWeekDay - 1;
var wkStart = new Date(new Date(dt).setDate(dt.getDate() - lessDays));
var wkEnd = new Date(new Date(wkStart).setDate(wkStart.getDate() + 6));
This will work well.

I'm using this
function get_next_week_start() {
var now = new Date();
var next_week_start = new Date(now.getFullYear(), now.getMonth(), now.getDate()+(8 - now.getDay()));
return next_week_start;
}

Returns Monday 00am to Monday 00am.
const now = new Date()
const startOfWeek = new Date(now.getFullYear(), now.getMonth(), now.getDate() - now.getDay() + 1)
const endOfWeek = new Date(now.getFullYear(), now.getMonth(), startOfWeek.getDate() + 7)

This function uses the current millisecond time to subtract the current week, and then subtracts one more week if the current date is on a monday (javascript counts from sunday).
function getMonday(fromDate) {
// length of one day i milliseconds
var dayLength = 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000;
// Get the current date (without time)
var currentDate = new Date(fromDate.getFullYear(), fromDate.getMonth(), fromDate.getDate());
// Get the current date's millisecond for this week
var currentWeekDayMillisecond = ((currentDate.getDay()) * dayLength);
// subtract the current date with the current date's millisecond for this week
var monday = new Date(currentDate.getTime() - currentWeekDayMillisecond + dayLength);
if (monday > currentDate) {
// It is sunday, so we need to go back further
monday = new Date(monday.getTime() - (dayLength * 7));
}
return monday;
}
I have tested it when week spans over from one month to another (and also years), and it seems to work properly.

Good evening,
I prefer to just have a simple extension method:
Date.prototype.startOfWeek = function (pStartOfWeek) {
var mDifference = this.getDay() - pStartOfWeek;
if (mDifference < 0) {
mDifference += 7;
}
return new Date(this.addDays(mDifference * -1));
}
You'll notice this actually utilizes another extension method that I use:
Date.prototype.addDays = function (pDays) {
var mDate = new Date(this.valueOf());
mDate.setDate(mDate.getDate() + pDays);
return mDate;
};
Now, if your weeks start on Sunday, pass in a "0" for the pStartOfWeek parameter, like so:
var mThisSunday = new Date().startOfWeek(0);
Similarly, if your weeks start on Monday, pass in a "1" for the pStartOfWeek parameter:
var mThisMonday = new Date().startOfWeek(1);
Regards,

a more generalized version of this... this will give you any day in the current week based on what day you specify.
//returns the relative day in the week 0 = Sunday, 1 = Monday ... 6 = Saturday
function getRelativeDayInWeek(d,dy) {
d = new Date(d);
var day = d.getDay(),
diff = d.getDate() - day + (day == 0 ? -6:dy); // adjust when day is sunday
return new Date(d.setDate(diff));
}
var monday = getRelativeDayInWeek(new Date(),1);
var friday = getRelativeDayInWeek(new Date(),5);
console.log(monday);
console.log(friday);

Simple solution for getting the first day of the week.
With this solution, it is possible to set an arbitrary start of week (e.g. Sunday = 0, Monday = 1, Tuesday = 2, etc.).
function getBeginOfWeek(date = new Date(), startOfWeek = 1) {
const result = new Date(date);
while (result.getDay() !== startOfWeek) {
result.setDate(result.getDate() - 1);
}
return result;
}
The solution correctly wraps on months (due to Date.setDate() being used)
For startOfWeek, the same constant numbers as in Date.getDay() can be used

setDate() has issues with month boundaries that are noted in comments above. A clean workaround is to find the date difference using epoch timestamps rather than the (surprisingly counterintuitive) methods on the Date object. I.e.
function getPreviousMonday(fromDate) {
var dayMillisecs = 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000;
// Get Date object truncated to date.
var d = new Date(new Date(fromDate || Date()).toISOString().slice(0, 10));
// If today is Sunday (day 0) subtract an extra 7 days.
var dayDiff = d.getDay() === 0 ? 7 : 0;
// Get date diff in millisecs to avoid setDate() bugs with month boundaries.
var mondayMillisecs = d.getTime() - (d.getDay() + dayDiff) * dayMillisecs;
// Return date as YYYY-MM-DD string.
return new Date(mondayMillisecs).toISOString().slice(0, 10);
}

Here is my solution:
function getWeekDates(){
var day_milliseconds = 24*60*60*1000;
var dates = [];
var current_date = new Date();
var monday = new Date(current_date.getTime()-(current_date.getDay()-1)*day_milliseconds);
var sunday = new Date(monday.getTime()+6*day_milliseconds);
dates.push(monday);
for(var i = 1; i < 6; i++){
dates.push(new Date(monday.getTime()+i*day_milliseconds));
}
dates.push(sunday);
return dates;
}
Now you can pick date by returned array index.

An example of the mathematically only calculation, without any Date functions.
const date = new Date();
const ts = +date;
const mondayTS = ts - ts % (60 * 60 * 24 * (7-4) * 1000);
const monday = new Date(mondayTS);
console.log(monday.toISOString(), 'Day:', monday.getDay());
const formatTS = v => new Date(v).toISOString();
const adjust = (v, d = 1) => v - v % (d * 1000);
const d = new Date('2020-04-22T21:48:17.468Z');
const ts = +d; // 1587592097468
const test = v => console.log(formatTS(adjust(ts, v)));
test(); // 2020-04-22T21:48:17.000Z
test(60); // 2020-04-22T21:48:00.000Z
test(60 * 60); // 2020-04-22T21:00:00.000Z
test(60 * 60 * 24); // 2020-04-22T00:00:00.000Z
test(60 * 60 * 24 * (7-4)); // 2020-04-20T00:00:00.000Z, monday
// So, what does `(7-4)` mean?
// 7 - days number in the week
// 4 - shifting for the weekday number of the first second of the 1970 year, the first time stamp second.
// new Date(0) ---> 1970-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
// new Date(0).getDay() ---> 4

It is important to discern between local time and UTC. I wanted to find the start of the week in UTC, so I used the following function.
function start_of_week_utc(date, start_day = 1) {
// Returns the start of the week containing a 'date'. Monday 00:00 UTC is
// considered to be the boundary between adjacent weeks, unless 'start_day' is
// specified. A Date object is returned.
date = new Date(date);
const day_of_month = date.getUTCDate();
const day_of_week = date.getUTCDay();
const difference_in_days = (
day_of_week >= start_day
? day_of_week - start_day
: day_of_week - start_day + 7
);
date.setUTCDate(day_of_month - difference_in_days);
date.setUTCHours(0);
date.setUTCMinutes(0);
date.setUTCSeconds(0);
date.setUTCMilliseconds(0);
return date;
}
To find the start of the week in a given timezone, first add the timezone offset to the input date and then subtract it from the output date.
const local_start_of_week = new Date(
start_of_week_utc(
date.getTime() + timezone_offset_ms
).getTime() - timezone_offset_ms
);

I use this:
let current_date = new Date();
let days_to_monday = 1 - current_date.getDay();
monday_date = current_date.addDays(days_to_monday);
// https://stackoverflow.com/a/563442/6533037
Date.prototype.addDays = function(days) {
var date = new Date(this.valueOf());
date.setDate(date.getDate() + days);
return date;
}
It works fine.

Accepted answer won't work for anyone who runs the code in UTC-XX:XX timezone.
Here is code which will work regardless of timezone for date only. This won't work if you provide time too. Only provide date or parse date and provide it as input. I have mentioned different test cases at start of the code.
function getDateForTheMonday(dateString) {
var orignalDate = new Date(dateString)
var modifiedDate = new Date(dateString)
var day = modifiedDate.getDay()
diff = modifiedDate.getDate() - day + (day == 0 ? -6:1);// adjust when day is sunday
modifiedDate.setDate(diff)
var diffInDate = orignalDate.getDate() - modifiedDate.getDate()
if(diffInDate == 6) {
diff = diff + 7
modifiedDate.setDate(diff)
}
console.log("Given Date : " + orignalDate.toUTCString())
console.log("Modified date for Monday : " + modifiedDate)
}
getDateForTheMonday("2022-08-01") // Jul month with 31 Days
getDateForTheMonday("2022-07-01") // June month with 30 days
getDateForTheMonday("2022-03-01") // Non leap year February
getDateForTheMonday("2020-03-01") // Leap year February
getDateForTheMonday("2022-01-01") // First day of the year
getDateForTheMonday("2021-12-31") // Last day of the year

Extending answer from #Christian C. Salvadó and information from #Ayyash (object is mutable) and #Awi and #Louis Ameline (set hours to 00:00:00)
The function can be like this
function getMonday(d) {
var day = d.getDay(),
diff = d.getDate() - day + (day == 0 ? -6:1); // adjust when day is sunday
d.setDate(diff);
d.setHours(0,0,0,0); // set hours to 00:00:00
return d; // object is mutable no need to recreate object
}
getMonday(new Date())

Check out: moment.js
Example:
moment().day(-7); // last Sunday (0 - 7)
moment().day(7); // next Sunday (0 + 7)
moment().day(10); // next Wednesday (3 + 7)
moment().day(24); // 3 Wednesdays from now (3 + 7 + 7 + 7)
Bonus: works with node.js too

Difference in Months between two dates in JavaScript

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 :)

The definition of "the number of months in the difference" is subject to a lot of interpretation. :-)
You can get the year, month, and day of month from a JavaScript date object. Depending on what information you're looking for, you can use those to figure out how many months are between two points in time.
For instance, off-the-cuff:
function monthDiff(d1, d2) {
var months;
months = (d2.getFullYear() - d1.getFullYear()) * 12;
months -= d1.getMonth();
months += d2.getMonth();
return months <= 0 ? 0 : months;
}
function monthDiff(d1, d2) {
var months;
months = (d2.getFullYear() - d1.getFullYear()) * 12;
months -= d1.getMonth();
months += d2.getMonth();
return months <= 0 ? 0 : months;
}
function test(d1, d2) {
var diff = monthDiff(d1, d2);
console.log(
d1.toISOString().substring(0, 10),
"to",
d2.toISOString().substring(0, 10),
":",
diff
);
}
test(
new Date(2008, 10, 4), // November 4th, 2008
new Date(2010, 2, 12) // March 12th, 2010
);
// Result: 16
test(
new Date(2010, 0, 1), // January 1st, 2010
new Date(2010, 2, 12) // March 12th, 2010
);
// Result: 2
test(
new Date(2010, 1, 1), // February 1st, 2010
new Date(2010, 2, 12) // March 12th, 2010
);
// Result: 1
(Note that month values in JavaScript start with 0 = January.)
Including fractional months in the above is much more complicated, because three days in a typical February is a larger fraction of that month (~10.714%) than three days in August (~9.677%), and of course even February is a moving target depending on whether it's a leap year.
There are also some date and time libraries available for JavaScript that probably make this sort of thing easier.
Note: There used to be a + 1 in the above, here:
months = (d2.getFullYear() - d1.getFullYear()) * 12;
months -= d1.getMonth() + 1;
// −−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−^^^^
months += d2.getMonth();
That's because originally I said:
...this finds out how many full months lie between two dates, not counting partial months (e.g., excluding the month each date is in).
I've removed it for two reasons:
Not counting partial months turns out not to be what many (most?) people coming to the answer want, so I thought I should separate them out.
It didn't always work even by that definition. :-D (Sorry.)

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.

Here's a function that accurately provides the number of months between 2 dates.
The default behavior only counts whole months, e.g. 3 months and 1 day will result in a difference of 3 months. You can prevent this by setting the roundUpFractionalMonths param as true, so a 3 month and 1 day difference will be returned as 4 months.
The accepted answer above (T.J. Crowder's answer) isn't accurate, it returns wrong values sometimes.
For example, monthDiff(new Date('Jul 01, 2015'), new Date('Aug 05, 2015')) returns 0 which is obviously wrong. The correct difference is either 1 whole month or 2 months rounded-up.
Here's the function I wrote:
function getMonthsBetween(date1,date2,roundUpFractionalMonths)
{
//Months will be calculated between start and end dates.
//Make sure start date is less than end date.
//But remember if the difference should be negative.
var startDate=date1;
var endDate=date2;
var inverse=false;
if(date1>date2)
{
startDate=date2;
endDate=date1;
inverse=true;
}
//Calculate the differences between the start and end dates
var yearsDifference=endDate.getFullYear()-startDate.getFullYear();
var monthsDifference=endDate.getMonth()-startDate.getMonth();
var daysDifference=endDate.getDate()-startDate.getDate();
var monthCorrection=0;
//If roundUpFractionalMonths is true, check if an extra month needs to be added from rounding up.
//The difference is done by ceiling (round up), e.g. 3 months and 1 day will be 4 months.
if(roundUpFractionalMonths===true && daysDifference>0)
{
monthCorrection=1;
}
//If the day difference between the 2 months is negative, the last month is not a whole month.
else if(roundUpFractionalMonths!==true && daysDifference<0)
{
monthCorrection=-1;
}
return (inverse?-1:1)*(yearsDifference*12+monthsDifference+monthCorrection);
};

Sometimes you may want to get just the quantity of the months between two dates totally ignoring the day part. So for instance, if you had two dates- 2013/06/21 and 2013/10/18- and you only cared about the 2013/06 and 2013/10 parts, here are the scenarios and possible solutions:
var date1=new Date(2013,5,21);//Remember, months are 0 based in JS
var date2=new Date(2013,9,18);
var year1=date1.getFullYear();
var year2=date2.getFullYear();
var month1=date1.getMonth();
var month2=date2.getMonth();
if(month1===0){ //Have to take into account
month1++;
month2++;
}
var numberOfMonths;
1.If you want just the number of the months between the two dates excluding both month1 and month2
numberOfMonths = (year2 - year1) * 12 + (month2 - month1) - 1;
2.If you want to include either of the months
numberOfMonths = (year2 - year1) * 12 + (month2 - month1);
3.If you want to include both of the months
numberOfMonths = (year2 - year1) * 12 + (month2 - month1) + 1;

If you need to count full months, regardless of the month being 28, 29, 30 or 31 days. Below should work.
var months = to.getMonth() - from.getMonth()
+ (12 * (to.getFullYear() - from.getFullYear()));
if(to.getDate() < from.getDate()){
months--;
}
return months;
This is an extended version of the answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/4312956/1987208 but fixes the case where it calculates 1 month for the case from 31st of January to 1st of February (1day).
This will cover the following;
1st Jan to 31st Jan ---> 30days ---> will result in 0 (logical since it is not a full month)
1st Feb to 1st Mar ---> 28 or 29 days ---> will result in 1 (logical since it is a full month)
15th Feb to 15th Mar ---> 28 or 29 days ---> will result in 1 (logical since a month passed)
31st Jan to 1st Feb ---> 1 day ---> will result in 0 (obvious but the mentioned answer in the post results in 1 month)

Difference in Months between two dates in JavaScript:
start_date = new Date(year, month, day); //Create start date object by passing appropiate argument
end_date = new Date(new Date(year, month, day)
total months between start_date and end_date :
total_months = (end_date.getFullYear() - start_date.getFullYear())*12 + (end_date.getMonth() - start_date.getMonth())

I know this is really late, but posting it anyway just in case it helps others. Here is a function I came up with that seems to do a good job of counting differences in months between two dates. It is admittedly a great deal raunchier than Mr.Crowder's, but provides more accurate results by stepping through the date object. It is in AS3 but you should just be able to drop the strong typing and you'll have JS. Feel free to make it nicer looking anyone out there!
function countMonths ( startDate:Date, endDate:Date ):int
{
var stepDate:Date = new Date;
stepDate.time = startDate.time;
var monthCount:int;
while( stepDate.time <= endDate.time ) {
stepDate.month += 1;
monthCount += 1;
}
if ( stepDate != endDate ) {
monthCount -= 1;
}
return monthCount;
}

You could also consider this solution, this function returns the month difference in integer or number
Passing the start date as the first or last param, is fault tolerant. Meaning, the function would still return the same value.
const diffInMonths = (end, start) => {
var timeDiff = Math.abs(end.getTime() - start.getTime());
return Math.round(timeDiff / (2e3 * 3600 * 365.25));
}
const result = diffInMonths(new Date(2015, 3, 28), new Date(2010, 1, 25));
// shows month difference as integer/number
console.log(result);

To expand on #T.J.'s answer, if you're looking for simple months, rather than full calendar months, you could just check if d2's date is greater than or equal to than d1's. That is, if d2 is later in its month than d1 is in its month, then there is 1 more month. So you should be able to just do this:
function monthDiff(d1, d2) {
var months;
months = (d2.getFullYear() - d1.getFullYear()) * 12;
months -= d1.getMonth() + 1;
months += d2.getMonth();
// edit: increment months if d2 comes later in its month than d1 in its month
if (d2.getDate() >= d1.getDate())
months++
// end edit
return months <= 0 ? 0 : months;
}
monthDiff(
new Date(2008, 10, 4), // November 4th, 2008
new Date(2010, 2, 12) // March 12th, 2010
);
// Result: 16; 4 Nov – 4 Dec '08, 4 Dec '08 – 4 Dec '09, 4 Dec '09 – 4 March '10
This doesn't totally account for time issues (e.g. 3 March at 4:00pm and 3 April at 3:00pm), but it's more accurate and for just a couple lines of code.

Consider each date in terms of months, then subtract to find the difference.
var past_date = new Date('11/1/2014');
var current_date = new Date();
var difference = (current_date.getFullYear()*12 + current_date.getMonth()) - (past_date.getFullYear()*12 + past_date.getMonth());
This will get you the difference of months between the two dates, ignoring the days.

There are two approaches, mathematical & quick, but subject to vagaries in the calendar, or iterative & slow, but handles all the oddities (or at least delegates handling them to a well-tested library).
If you iterate through the calendar, incrementing the start date by one month & seeing if we pass the end date. This delegates anomaly-handling to the built-in Date() classes, but could be slow IF you're doing this for a large number of dates. James' answer takes this approach. As much as I dislike the idea, I think this is the "safest" approach, and if you're only doing one calculation, the performance difference really is negligible. We tend to try to over-optimize tasks which will only be performed once.
Now, if you're calculating this function on a dataset, you probably don't want to run that function on each row (or god forbid, multiple times per record). In that case, you can use almost any of the other answers here except the accepted answer, which is just wrong (difference between new Date() and new Date() is -1)?
Here's my stab at a mathematical-and-quick approach, which accounts for differing month lengths and leap years. You really should only use a function like this if you'll be applying this to a dataset (doing this calculation over & over). If you just need to do it once, use James' iterative approach above, as you're delegating handling all the (many) exceptions to the Date() object.
function diffInMonths(from, to){
var months = to.getMonth() - from.getMonth() + (12 * (to.getFullYear() - from.getFullYear()));
if(to.getDate() < from.getDate()){
var newFrom = new Date(to.getFullYear(),to.getMonth(),from.getDate());
if (to < newFrom && to.getMonth() == newFrom.getMonth() && to.getYear() %4 != 0){
months--;
}
}
return months;
}

Calculate the difference between two dates include fraction of month (days).
var difference = (date2.getDate() - date1.getDate()) / 30 +
date2.getMonth() - date1.getMonth() +
(12 * (date2.getFullYear() - date1.getFullYear()));
For example:
date1: 24/09/2015 (24th Sept 2015)
date2: 09/11/2015 (9th Nov 2015)
the difference: 2.5 (months)

Here you go other approach with less looping:
calculateTotalMonthsDifference = function(firstDate, secondDate) {
var fm = firstDate.getMonth();
var fy = firstDate.getFullYear();
var sm = secondDate.getMonth();
var sy = secondDate.getFullYear();
var months = Math.abs(((fy - sy) * 12) + fm - sm);
var firstBefore = firstDate > secondDate;
firstDate.setFullYear(sy);
firstDate.setMonth(sm);
firstBefore ? firstDate < secondDate ? months-- : "" : secondDate < firstDate ? months-- : "";
return months;
}

This should work fine:
function monthDiff(d1, d2) {
var months;
months = (d2.getFullYear() - d1.getFullYear()) * 12;
months += d2.getMonth() - d1.getMonth();
return months;
}

Number Of Months When Day & Time Doesn't Matter
In this case, I'm not concerned with full months, part months, how long a month is, etc. I just need to know the number of months. A relevant real world case would be where a report is due every month, and I need to know how many reports there should be.
Example:
January = 1 month
January - February = 2 months
November - January = 3 months
This is an elaborated code example to show where the numbers are going.
Let's take 2 timestamps that should result in 4 months
November 13, 2019's timestamp: 1573621200000
February 20, 2020's timestamp: 1582261140000
May be slightly different with your timezone / time pulled. The day, minutes, and seconds don't matter and can be included in the timestamp, but we will disregard it with our actual calculation.
Step 1: convert the timestamp to a JavaScript date
let dateRangeStartConverted = new Date(1573621200000);
let dateRangeEndConverted = new Date(1582261140000);
Step 2: get integer values for the months / years
let startingMonth = dateRangeStartConverted.getMonth();
let startingYear = dateRangeStartConverted.getFullYear();
let endingMonth = dateRangeEndConverted.getMonth();
let endingYear = dateRangeEndConverted.getFullYear();
This gives us
Starting month: 11
Starting Year: 2019
Ending month: 2
Ending Year: 2020
Step 3: Add (12 * (endYear - startYear)) + 1 to the ending month.
This makes our starting month stay at 11
This makes our ending month equal 15 2 + (12 * (2020 - 2019)) + 1 = 15
Step 4: Subtract the months
15 - 11 = 4; we get our 4 month result.
29 Month Example Example
November 2019 through March 2022 is 29 months. If you put these into an excel spreadsheet, you will see 29 rows.
Our starting month is 11
Our ending month is 40 3 + (12 * (2022-2019)) + 1
40 - 11 = 29

function calcualteMonthYr(){
var fromDate =new Date($('#txtDurationFrom2').val()); //date picker (text fields)
var toDate = new Date($('#txtDurationTo2').val());
var months=0;
months = (toDate.getFullYear() - fromDate.getFullYear()) * 12;
months -= fromDate.getMonth();
months += toDate.getMonth();
if (toDate.getDate() < fromDate.getDate()){
months--;
}
$('#txtTimePeriod2').val(months);
}

Following code returns full months between two dates by taking nr of days of partial months into account as well.
var monthDiff = function(d1, d2) {
if( d2 < d1 ) {
var dTmp = d2;
d2 = d1;
d1 = dTmp;
}
var months = (d2.getFullYear() - d1.getFullYear()) * 12;
months -= d1.getMonth() + 1;
months += d2.getMonth();
if( d1.getDate() <= d2.getDate() ) months += 1;
return months;
}
monthDiff(new Date(2015, 01, 20), new Date(2015, 02, 20))
> 1
monthDiff(new Date(2015, 01, 20), new Date(2015, 02, 19))
> 0
monthDiff(new Date(2015, 01, 20), new Date(2015, 01, 22))
> 0

function monthDiff(d1, d2) {
var months, d1day, d2day, d1new, d2new, diffdate,d2month,d2year,d1maxday,d2maxday;
months = (d2.getFullYear() - d1.getFullYear()) * 12;
months -= d1.getMonth() + 1;
months += d2.getMonth();
months = (months <= 0 ? 0 : months);
d1day = d1.getDate();
d2day = d2.getDate();
if(d1day > d2day)
{
d2month = d2.getMonth();
d2year = d2.getFullYear();
d1new = new Date(d2year, d2month-1, d1day,0,0,0,0);
var timeDiff = Math.abs(d2.getTime() - d1new.getTime());
diffdate = Math.abs(Math.ceil(timeDiff / (1000 * 3600 * 24)));
d1new = new Date(d2year, d2month, 1,0,0,0,0);
d1new.setDate(d1new.getDate()-1);
d1maxday = d1new.getDate();
months += diffdate / d1maxday;
}
else
{
if(!(d1.getMonth() == d2.getMonth() && d1.getFullYear() == d2.getFullYear()))
{
months += 1;
}
diffdate = d2day - d1day + 1;
d2month = d2.getMonth();
d2year = d2.getFullYear();
d2new = new Date(d2year, d2month + 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0);
d2new.setDate(d2new.getDate()-1);
d2maxday = d2new.getDate();
months += diffdate / d2maxday;
}
return months;
}

below logic will fetch difference in months
(endDate.getFullYear()*12+endDate.getMonth())-(startDate.getFullYear()*12+startDate.getMonth())

function monthDiff(date1, date2, countDays) {
countDays = (typeof countDays !== 'undefined') ? countDays : false;
if (!date1 || !date2) {
return 0;
}
let bigDate = date1;
let smallDate = date2;
if (date1 < date2) {
bigDate = date2;
smallDate = date1;
}
let monthsCount = (bigDate.getFullYear() - smallDate.getFullYear()) * 12 + (bigDate.getMonth() - smallDate.getMonth());
if (countDays && bigDate.getDate() < smallDate.getDate()) {
--monthsCount;
}
return monthsCount;
}

This is the simplest solution I could find. This will directly return the number of months. Although, it always gives an absolute value.
new Date(new Date(d2) - new Date(d1)).getMonth();
For non-absolute values, you can use the following solution:
function diff_months(startDate, endDate) {
let diff = new Date( new Date(endDate) - new Date(startDate) ).getMonth();
return endDate >= startDate ? diff : -diff;
}

See what I use:
function monthDiff() {
var startdate = Date.parseExact($("#startingDate").val(), "dd/MM/yyyy");
var enddate = Date.parseExact($("#endingDate").val(), "dd/MM/yyyy");
var months = 0;
while (startdate < enddate) {
if (startdate.getMonth() === 1 && startdate.getDate() === 28) {
months++;
startdate.addMonths(1);
startdate.addDays(2);
} else {
months++;
startdate.addMonths(1);
}
}
return months;
}

It also counts the days and convert them in months.
function monthDiff(d1, d2) {
var months;
months = (d2.getFullYear() - d1.getFullYear()) * 12; //calculates months between two years
months -= d1.getMonth() + 1;
months += d2.getMonth(); //calculates number of complete months between two months
day1 = 30-d1.getDate();
day2 = day1 + d2.getDate();
months += parseInt(day2/30); //calculates no of complete months lie between two dates
return months <= 0 ? 0 : months;
}
monthDiff(
new Date(2017, 8, 8), // Aug 8th, 2017 (d1)
new Date(2017, 12, 12) // Dec 12th, 2017 (d2)
);
//return value will be 4 months

getMonthDiff(d1, d2) {
var year1 = dt1.getFullYear();
var year2 = dt2.getFullYear();
var month1 = dt1.getMonth();
var month2 = dt2.getMonth();
var day1 = dt1.getDate();
var day2 = dt2.getDate();
var months = month2 - month1;
var years = year2 -year1
days = day2 - day1;
if (days < 0) {
months -= 1;
}
if (months < 0) {
months += 12;
}
return months + years*!2;
}

Any value is returned along with its absolute value.
function differenceInMonths(firstDate, secondDate) {
if (firstDate > secondDate) [firstDate, secondDate] = [secondDate, firstDate];
let diffMonths = (secondDate.getFullYear() - firstDate.getFullYear()) * 12;
diffMonths -= firstDate.getMonth();
diffMonths += secondDate.getMonth();
return diffMonths;
}

The following code snippet helped me to find months between two dates
Find Months Count Between two dates JS
Months Between two dates JS
Code Snippet
function diff_months_count(startDate, endDate) {
var months;
var d1 = new Date(startDate);
var d2 = new Date(endDate);
months = (d2.getFullYear() - d1.getFullYear()) * 12;
months -= d1.getMonth();
months += d2.getMonth();
return months <= 0 ? 0 : months;
}

#Here is a nice piece of code i wrote for getting number of days and months
from given dates
[1]: jsfiddle link
/**
* Date a end day
* Date b start day
* #param DateA Date #param DateB Date
* #returns Date difference
*/
function getDateDifference(dateA, DateB, type = 'month') {
const END_DAY = new Date(dateA)
const START_DAY = new Date(DateB)
let calculatedDateBy
let returnDateDiff
if (type === 'month') {
const startMonth = START_DAY.getMonth()
const endMonth = END_DAY.getMonth()
calculatedDateBy = startMonth - endMonth
returnDateDiff = Math.abs(
calculatedDateBy + 12 * (START_DAY.getFullYear() - END_DAY.getFullYear())
)
} else {
calculatedDateBy = Math.abs(START_DAY - END_DAY)
returnDateDiff = Math.ceil(calculatedDateBy / (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24))
}
const out = document.getElementById('output')
out.innerText = returnDateDiff
return returnDateDiff
}
// Gets number of days from given dates
/* getDateDifference('2022-03-31','2022-04-08','day') */
// Get number of months from given dates
getDateDifference('2021-12-02','2022-04-08','month')
<div id="output"> </div>

anyVar = (((DisplayTo.getFullYear() * 12) + DisplayTo.getMonth()) - ((DisplayFrom.getFullYear() * 12) + DisplayFrom.getMonth()));

One approach would be to write a simple Java Web Service (REST/JSON) that uses JODA library
http://joda-time.sourceforge.net/faq.html#datediff
to calculate difference between two dates and call that service from javascript.
This assumes your back end is in Java.