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I have 2 dates which I need to compare to see if one is greater than the other but they are in different formats and I'm not sure of the best way to compare the 2.
The formats are:
1381308375118 (this is var futureDate)
which is created by
var today = new Date(); today.setHours(0, 0, 0, 0); var futureDate = new Date().setDate(today.getDate() + 56); //56 days in the future...
And the other format is
2013/08/26
Any ideas how I can compare the 2?
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In JavaScript, we can compare two dates by converting them into numeric values to correspond to their time. First, we can convert the Date into a numeric value by using the getTime() function. By converting the given dates into numeric values we can directly compare them.
In this very case you can just compare strings date1. compareTo(date2) . EDIT: However, the proper way is to use SimpleDateFormat : DateFormat f = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-mm-dd"); Date d1 = f.
Without using a 3rd party library, you can create new Date objects using both those formats, retrieve the number of milliseconds (since midnight Jan 1, 1970) using getTime() and then simply use >:
new Date("2013/08/26").getTime() > new Date(1381308375118).getTime()
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