Number of weeks between two dates using JavaScript

Question

I'm trying to return the number of weeks between two dates using JavaScript.

So I have the following variables:

var date = new Date();
var day = date.getDate();
var month = date.getMonth() + 1;
var year = date.getFullYear();

if(day < 10) { day= '0' + day; }
if(month < 10) { month = '0' + month; }

var dateToday = day + '/' + month + '/' + year;

var dateEndPlacement = '22/06/2014';

I've also prefixed the days and months with 0 if they are less than 10. Not sure if this is the correct way to do this... so alternative ideas would be welcomed.

And then I pass these two dates to the following function:

function calculateWeeksBetween(date1, date2) {
    // The number of milliseconds in one week
    var ONE_WEEK = 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24 * 7;
    // Convert both dates to milliseconds
    var date1_ms = date1.getTime();
    var date2_ms = date2.getTime();
    // Calculate the difference in milliseconds
    var difference_ms = Math.abs(date1_ms - date2_ms);
    // Convert back to weeks and return hole weeks
    return Math.floor(difference_ms / ONE_WEEK);
}

However I get the error:

Uncaught TypeError: Object 04/04/2014 has no method 'getTime'

Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

For those that are asking/gonna ask, I'm calling the function like this:

 calculateWeeksBetween(dateToday, dateEndPlacement);

Answer 1

I would recommend using moment.js for this kind of thing.

But if you want to do it in pure javascript here is how I would do it:

function weeksBetween(d1, d2) {
    return Math.round((d2 - d1) / (7 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000));
}

Then call with

weeksBetween(new Date(), new Date(2014, 6, 22));