time-between-dates v1.0.4

Time Between Dates

Simple script to measure time between two dates. Returns result in miliseconds, seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks or years.

Installation

Install via npm

$ npm install time-between-dates

... or yarn

$ yarn add time-between-dates

then require

var timeBetweenDates = require('time-between-dates');

or import

import timeBetweenDates from 'time-between-dates'

Usage

timeBetweenDates(date, date2, unit, decimal);

Provide two dates, time unit and decimal places are optional

Examples

// some dates
var x = (new Date('November 10, 2017 11:25:24')).getTime();
var y = (new Date('November 15, 2017 05:12:10')).getTime();

// time in miliseconds (default)
timeBetweenDates(x, y);                // returns 409606000

// time in seconds (rounded to fixed)
timeBetweenDates(x, y, 'seconds');     // returns 409606

// time in minutes (one decimal place)
timeBetweenDates(x, y, 'minutes', 1);  // returns 6826.8

// ... and so on
timeBetweenDates(x, y, 'hours', 4);    // returns 113.779
timeBetweenDates(x, y, 'days',  2);    // returns 4.74
timeBetweenDates(x, y, 'weeks', 3);    // returns 0.677
timeBetweenDates(x, y, 'years', 3);    // returns 0.013

// "time since"
var now = Date.now();
timeBetweenDates(x, now, 'days', 2);

Author

Kuba Paczyński

• github/ecrider
• npmjs/new31337
• twitter/new31337
• linkedin/kuba-paczynski

License

Copyright © 2017, Kuba Paczyński. Released under the MIT License.