What is the best way to determine if a date is today in JavaScript?

Question

I have a date object in JavaScript and I want to figure out if that date is today. What is the fastest way of doing this?

My concern was around comparing date object as one might have a different time than another but any time on today's date should return true.

Answer 1

You could use toDateString:

var d = new Date() var bool = (d.toDateString() === otherDate.toDateString()); 

Answer 2

The answers based on toDateString() will work I think, but I personally would avoid them since they basically ask the wrong question.

Here is a simple implementation:

function areSameDate(d1, d2) {     return d1.getFullYear() == d2.getFullYear()         && d1.getMonth() == d2.getMonth()         && d1.getDate() == d2.getDate(); } 

MDN has a decent overview of the JS Date object API if this isn't quite what you need.