How to calculate number of days between two dates

Solution 1:

http://momentjs.com/ or https://date-fns.org/

From Moment docs:

var a = moment([2007, 0, 29]);
var b = moment([2007, 0, 28]);
a.diff(b, 'days')   // =1

or to include the start:

a.diff(b, 'days')+1   // =2

Beats messing with timestamps and time zones manually.

Depending on your specific use case, you can either

1. Use a/b.startOf('day') and/or a/b.endOf('day') to force the diff to be inclusive or exclusive at the "ends" (as suggested by @kotpal in the comments).
2. Set third argument true to get a floating point diff which you can then Math.floor, Math.ceil or Math.round as needed.
3. Option 2 can also be accomplished by getting 'seconds' instead of 'days' and then dividing by 24*60*60.

Solution 2:

If you are using moment.js you can do it easily.

var start = moment("2018-03-10", "YYYY-MM-DD");
var end = moment("2018-03-15", "YYYY-MM-DD");

//Difference in number of days
moment.duration(start.diff(end)).asDays();

//Difference in number of weeks
moment.duration(start.diff(end)).asWeeks();

If you want to find difference between a given date and current date in number of days (ignoring time), make sure to remove time from moment object of current date as below

moment().startOf('day')

To find difference between a given date and current date in number of days

var given = moment("2018-03-10", "YYYY-MM-DD");
var current = moment().startOf('day');

//Difference in number of days
moment.duration(given.diff(current)).asDays();