Add Working Days to a Date Using JavaScript

Question

How can I use JavaScript to add working days (i.e. Mon - Friday) automatically adding weekends where necessary?

So if I were to add 5 working days to today (Tue. 22nd Nov. 2016) the result should be "Tue. 29th Nov. 2016" and not "Sun. 27th Nov. 2016".

Answer 1

It is possible to use Date's setDate function (in combination with getDate) to add days onto a date i.e. -

var myDate = new Date(); // Tue 22/11/2016
myDate.setDate(myDate.getDate() + 3); // Fri 25/11/2016

So once you've calculated the number of weekend days within the workdays period you can add that and the required number of workdays to the start date to get the final date.

This function should work though obviously this will not take account of national holidays -

function addWorkDays(startDate, days) {
    if(isNaN(days)) {
        console.log("Value provided for \"days\" was not a number");
        return
    }
    if(!(startDate instanceof Date)) {
        console.log("Value provided for \"startDate\" was not a Date object");
        return
    }
    // Get the day of the week as a number (0 = Sunday, 1 = Monday, .... 6 = Saturday)
    var dow = startDate.getDay();
    var daysToAdd = parseInt(days);
    // If the current day is Sunday add one day
    if (dow == 0)
        daysToAdd++;
    // If the start date plus the additional days falls on or after the closest Saturday calculate weekends
    if (dow + daysToAdd >= 6) {
        //Subtract days in current working week from work days
        var remainingWorkDays = daysToAdd - (5 - dow);
        //Add current working week's weekend
        daysToAdd += 2;
        if (remainingWorkDays > 5) {
            //Add two days for each working week by calculating how many weeks are included
            daysToAdd += 2 * Math.floor(remainingWorkDays / 5);
            //Exclude final weekend if remainingWorkDays resolves to an exact number of weeks
            if (remainingWorkDays % 5 == 0)
                daysToAdd -= 2;
        }
    }
    startDate.setDate(startDate.getDate() + daysToAdd);
    return startDate;
}

//And use it like so (months are zero based)
var today = new Date(2016, 10, 22);
today = addWorkDays(today, 5); // Tue Nov 29 2016 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (GMT Standard Time)

It could also be added to the Date prototype -

Date.prototype.addWorkDays = function (days) {
    if(isNaN(days)) {
        console.log("Value provided for \"days\" was not a number");
        return
    }

    // Get the day of the week as a number (0 = Sunday, 1 = Monday, .... 6 = Saturday)
    var dow = this.getDay();
    var daysToAdd = parseInt(days);
    // If the current day is Sunday add one day
    if (dow == 0) {
        daysToAdd++;
    }
    // If the start date plus the additional days falls on or after the closest Saturday calculate weekends
    if (dow + daysToAdd >= 6) {
        //Subtract days in current working week from work days
        var remainingWorkDays = daysToAdd - (5 - dow);
        //Add current working week's weekend
        daysToAdd += 2;
        if (remainingWorkDays > 5) {
            //Add two days for each working week by calculating how many weeks are included
            daysToAdd += 2 * Math.floor(remainingWorkDays / 5);
            //Exclude final weekend if the remainingWorkDays resolves to an exact number of weeks
            if (remainingWorkDays % 5 == 0)
                daysToAdd -= 2;
        }
    }
    this.setDate(this.getDate() + daysToAdd);
};

//And use it like so (months are zero based)
var today = new Date(2016, 10, 22)
today.addWorkDays(5); // Tue Nov 29 2016 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (GMT Standard Time)

Answer 2

I think you can use moment-business-days.

Example:

// 22-11-2016 is Tuesday, DD-MM-YYYY is the format 
moment('22-11-2016', 'DD-MM-YYYY').businessAdd(5)._d // Tue Nov 29 2016 00:00:00 GMT-0600 (CST)