I need to call an api, passing start and end date, but given that the interval is too wide I am thinking that I need to do several calls using smaller date intervals. This is how I am trying to set start and stop dates:
const daysBracket = 15; let fromDate = new Date('2020-04-01'); let toDate = new Date('2020-06-01'); let stopDate = new Date('2020-04-01'); while(fromDate <= toDate) { stopDate.setDate(fromDate.getDate() + (daysBracket - 1)); console.log('Start: ' + fromDate.toDateString()); console.log('Stop: ' + stopDate.toDateString()); console.log('- - - - - - - - - - - - -'); fromDate.setDate(fromDate.getDate() + daysBracket); }
but I am getting this result (start date is updated correctly but stop date doesn’t change accordingly):
Start: Wed Apr 01 2020 Stop: Wed Apr 15 2020 - - - - - - - - - - - - - Start: Thu Apr 16 2020 Stop: Thu Apr 30 2020 - - - - - - - - - - - - - Start: Fri May 01 2020 Stop: Wed Apr 15 2020 - - - - - - - - - - - - - Start: Sat May 16 2020 Stop: Thu Apr 30 2020 - - - - - - - - - - - - - Start: Sun May 31 2020 Stop: Fri May 15 2020 - - - - - - - - - - - - - Start: Mon Jun 15 2020 Stop: Fri May 29 2020 - - - - - - - - - - - - - Start: Tue Jun 30 2020 Stop: Sat Jun 13 2020 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Can you please tell me what I am doing wrong?
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Answer
I geuss this answer provides some clarity. The following works:
const daysBracket = 15; let fromDate = new Date('2020-04-01'); let toDate = new Date('2020-06-01'); let stopDate = new Date('2020-04-01'); function addDays(date, days) { var result = new Date(date); result.setDate(result.getDate() + days); return result; } while(fromDate <= toDate) { stopDate = addDays(fromDate, daysBracket -1) console.log('Start: ' + fromDate.toDateString()); console.log('Stop: ' + stopDate.toDateString()); console.log('- - - - - - - - - - - - -'); fromDate = addDays(fromDate, daysBracket); }