How to calculate number of days between two dates

Question

I have two input dates taking from Date Picker control. I have selected start date 2/2/2012 and end date 2/7/2012. I have written following code for that.

I should get result as 6 but I am getting 5.

function SetDays(invoker) {        var start = $find('<%=StartWebDatePicker.ClientID%>').get_value();     var end = $find('<%=EndWebDatePicker.ClientID%>').get_value();      var oneDay=1000 * 60 * 60 * 24;     var difference_ms = Math.abs(end.getTime() - start.getTime())     var diffValue = Math.round(difference_ms / oneDay); } 

Can anyone tell me how I can get exact difference?

Answer 1

http://momentjs.com/ or https://date-fns.org/

From Moment docs:

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

or to include the start:

a.diff(b, 'days')+1   // =2 

Beats messing with timestamps and time zones manually.

Depending on your specific use case, you can either

1. Use a/b.startOf('day') and/or a/b.endOf('day') to force the diff to be inclusive or exclusive at the "ends" (as suggested by @kotpal in the comments).
2. Set third argument true to get a floating point diff which you can then Math.floor, Math.ceil or Math.round as needed.
3. Option 2 can also be accomplished by getting 'seconds' instead of 'days' and then dividing by 24*60*60.