There are different ways to get the current time in milliseconds with Date object: Assuming that you don’t need to create an object and just need a current time in milliseconds, which one would be the most effective one? In terms of performance. EDIT: I understand most devs wouldn’t care about thi…
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Get today coptic date
I’m looking to get coptic date of today with any code type like php or javascript to display coptic date to my site header. I need it in arabic or english. I have tried to find it, but didn’t found any thing like it in english. Reference: http://www.copticchurch.net/easter.html http://www.ortelius…
Moment.js and Unix Epoch Conversion
I have a web service that is returning a date as the following string: /Date(1377907200000)/ I use MomentJS to parse this to a moment object. moment(“/Date(1377907200000)/”) => Fri Aug 30 2013 20:00:00 GMT-0400 All of that is fine. But when I call unix() on the object I am given the value 13779…
Converting Excel Date Serial Number to Date using Javascript
I have the following javascript code that convert date (string) to the Date Serial Number used in Microsoft Excel: So, how do I do the reverse? (Meaning that a Javascript code that convert the Date Serial Number used in Microsoft Excel to a date string? Answer Try this: Custom made for you 🙂
bootstrap datepicker today as default
I am using this bootstrap-datepicker for my datepicker. I’d like the datepicker to choose “today” for start day or default day. I cannot figure out how to set “today” automatically, so I did an inefficient way HTML: JS: Online Sample: http://jsfiddle.net/BXZk2/ Just looking for a…
Moment.js – how do I get the number of years since a date, not rounded up?
I’m trying to calculate a person’s age using Moment.js, but I’m finding that the otherwise useful fromNow method rounds up the years. For instance, if today is 12/27/2012 and the person’s birth date is 02/26/1978, moment(“02/26/1978”, “MM/DD/YYYY”).fromNow() ret…
Get time difference between two dates in seconds
I’m trying to get a difference between two dates in seconds. The logic would be like this : set an initial date which would be now; set a final date which would be the initial date plus some amount of seconds in future ( let’s say 15 for instance ) get the difference between those two ( the amount…
Easiest way to convert month name to month number in JS ? (Jan = 01)
Just want to covert Jan to 01 (date format) I can use array() but looking for another way… Any suggestion? Answer Just for fun I did this: Bonus: it also supports full month names 😀 Or the new improved version that simply returns -1 – change it to throw the exception if you want (instead of return…
Javascript Date – set just the date, ignoring time?
I have a bunch of objects, each of which has a timestamp, that I want to group by date, into a JSON object. The ultimate goal is something like this: To get the date, I’m testing each timestamp object and using: ..then I’m using that to store as a name for the JSON object. It seems messy, and I…
How to add/subtract dates with JavaScript?
I want to let users easily add and subtract dates using JavaScript in order to browse their entries by date. The dates are in the format: “mm/dd/yyyy”. I want them to be able to click a “Next” button, and if the date is: ” 06/01/2012″ then on clicking next, it should become…