Getting time between dates

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I'm trying to write a countdown and it should expires on a MySQL datetime value.

Using JavaScript I can get today's time using new Date()).getTime() but then how can I get the time difference from JS date and the MySQL datetime, assuming MySQL datetime value is in the future

is this what you are looking for - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1787939/check-time-difference-in-javascript. — attila, May 11 '14 at 19:38
The obvious solution would be to pass the MySQL datetime to javascript and parse it as a javascript date, then just subtract one from the other. — adeneo, May 11 '14 at 19:39

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:27

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getTime() gives you the number of milliseconds since 1970-01-01.

Convert the MySQL datetime object to JS format, and then you can subtract the milliseconds and see the difference.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:27

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answered May 11 '14 at 19:39

Assaf Lavie

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 11 '14 at 19:45

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Easy as this:

new Date('2014-08-01 00:00:00').getTime()-new Date().getTime()

returned value:

7006311072//Js time timestamp

answered May 11 '14 at 19:45

Hristo Ivanov

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Getting time between dates

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