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Get the days, hours and minutes in Moment.js

rated 0 times [ 101] [ 4] / answers: 1 / hits: 58418 / 7 Years ago, thu, january 26, 2017, 12:00:00

So This is my first time using Moment.js and I encountered the following problem, so I have this following dates:

now: 2017-01-26T14:21:22+0000

expiration: 2017-01-29T17:24:22+0000

What I want to get is:

Day: 3

Hours: 3

Mins: 3

I tried the following code:

const now = moment();

const exp = moment(expire_date);

console.log(expire_date);

days = exp.diff(now, 'days');

hours = exp.diff(now, 'hours') - (days * 24);

minutes = exp.diff(now, 'minutes') - ((days * 1440) + (hours * 24) * 60);

I know I did something wrong (maybe my calculation or I used the wrong method), but I can't figure out what it is.

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answered 7 Years ago raymondd · Accepted Answer

MomentJS can calculate all that for you without you doing any logic.

First find the difference between the two moments

Express it as a Duration

Then display whichever component .days(), .hours() of the duration that you want.

Note: You can also express the entire duration .asDays(), .asHours() etc if you want.

const now = moment(2017-01-26T14:21:22+0000);

const expiration = moment(2017-01-29T17:24:22+0000);



// get the difference between the moments

const diff = expiration.diff(now);



//express as a duration

const diffDuration = moment.duration(diff);



// display

console.log(Days:, diffDuration.days());

console.log(Hours:, diffDuration.hours());

console.log(Minutes:, diffDuration.minutes());

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