[javascript] How do I get the number of days between two dates in JavaScript?

How do I get the number of days between two dates in JavaScript? For example, given two dates in input boxes:

<input id="first" value="1/1/2000"/>
<input id="second" value="1/1/2001"/>

<script>
  alert(datediff("day", first, second)); // what goes here?
</script>

A Better Solution by

Ignoring time part

it will return 0 if both the dates are same.

function dayDiff(firstDate, secondDate) {_x000D_
  firstDate = new Date(firstDate);_x000D_
  secondDate = new Date(secondDate);_x000D_
  if (!isNaN(firstDate) && !isNaN(secondDate)) {_x000D_
    firstDate.setHours(0, 0, 0, 0); //ignore time part_x000D_
    secondDate.setHours(0, 0, 0, 0); //ignore time part_x000D_
    var dayDiff = secondDate - firstDate;_x000D_
    dayDiff = dayDiff / 86400000; // divide by milisec in one day_x000D_
    console.log(dayDiff);_x000D_
  } else {_x000D_
    console.log("Enter valid date.");_x000D_
  }_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
$(document).ready(function() {_x000D_
  $('input[type=datetime]').datepicker({_x000D_
    dateFormat: "mm/dd/yy",_x000D_
    changeMonth: true,_x000D_
    changeYear: true_x000D_
  });_x000D_
  $("#button").click(function() {_x000D_
    dayDiff($('#first').val(), $('#second').val());_x000D_
  });_x000D_
});

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>_x000D_
<link rel="stylesheet" href="//code.jquery.com/ui/1.12.1/themes/base/jquery-ui.css">_x000D_
<script src="//code.jquery.com/ui/1.12.1/jquery-ui.js"></script>_x000D_
_x000D_
<input type="datetime" id="first" value="12/28/2016" />_x000D_
<input type="datetime" id="second" value="12/28/2017" />_x000D_
<input type="button" id="button" value="Calculate">

The easiest way to get the difference between two dates:

var diff =  Math.floor(( Date.parse(str2) - Date.parse(str1) ) / 86400000); 

You get the difference days (or NaN if one or both could not be parsed). The parse date gived the result in milliseconds and to get it by day you have to divided it by 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000

If you want it divided by days, hours, minutes, seconds and milliseconds:

function dateDiff( str1, str2 ) {
    var diff = Date.parse( str2 ) - Date.parse( str1 ); 
    return isNaN( diff ) ? NaN : {
        diff : diff,
        ms : Math.floor( diff            % 1000 ),
        s  : Math.floor( diff /     1000 %   60 ),
        m  : Math.floor( diff /    60000 %   60 ),
        h  : Math.floor( diff /  3600000 %   24 ),
        d  : Math.floor( diff / 86400000        )
    };
}

Here is my refactored version of James version:

function mydiff(date1,date2,interval) {
    var second=1000, minute=second*60, hour=minute*60, day=hour*24, week=day*7;
    date1 = new Date(date1);
    date2 = new Date(date2);
    var timediff = date2 - date1;
    if (isNaN(timediff)) return NaN;
    switch (interval) {
        case "years": return date2.getFullYear() - date1.getFullYear();
        case "months": return (
            ( date2.getFullYear() * 12 + date2.getMonth() )
            -
            ( date1.getFullYear() * 12 + date1.getMonth() )
        );
        case "weeks"  : return Math.floor(timediff / week);
        case "days"   : return Math.floor(timediff / day); 
        case "hours"  : return Math.floor(timediff / hour); 
        case "minutes": return Math.floor(timediff / minute);
        case "seconds": return Math.floor(timediff / second);
        default: return undefined;
    }
}

I only got two timestamps in millisecond, so I have to do some extra steps with moment.js to get the days between.

const getDaysDiff = (fromTimestamp, toTimestamp) => {
    // set timezone offset with utcOffset if needed
    let fromDate = moment(fromTimestamp).utcOffset(8);
    let toDate = moment(toTimestamp).utcOffset(8);
    // get the start moment of the day
    fromDate.set({'hour':0, 'minute': 0, 'second': 0, 'millisecond': 0});
    toDate.set({'hour':0, 'minute': 0, 'second': 0, 'millisecond': 0});
    let diffDays = toDate.diff(fromDate, 'days');

    return diffDays;
}

getDaysDiff(1528889400000, 1528944180000)// 1 

I think the solutions aren't correct 100% I would use ceil instead of floor, round will work but it isn't the right operation.

function dateDiff(str1, str2){
    var diff = Date.parse(str2) - Date.parse(str1); 
    return isNaN(diff) ? NaN : {
        diff: diff,
        ms: Math.ceil(diff % 1000),
        s: Math.ceil(diff / 1000 % 60),
        m: Math.ceil(diff / 60000 % 60),
        h: Math.ceil(diff / 3600000 % 24),
        d: Math.ceil(diff / 86400000)
    };
}

One-Liner and small

const diff=(e,t)=>Math.floor((new Date(e).getTime()-new Date(t).getTime())/1000*60*60*24);

// or

const diff=(e,t)=>Math.floor((new Date(e).getTime()-new Date(t).getTime())/86400000);

// or

const diff=(e,t)=>Math.floor((new Date(e).getTime()-new Date(t).getTime())/864e5);

// or

const diff=(e,t)=>Math.floor((new Date(e)-new Date(t))/864e5);

// or

const diff=(a,b)=>(new Date(a)-new Date(b))/864e5|0; 

// use
diff('1/1/2001', '1/1/2000')

For TypeScript

const diff=(e,t)=>Math.floor((new Date(e).getTime()-new Date(t).getTime())/86400000);

Better to get rid of DST, Math.ceil, Math.floor etc. by using UTC times:

var firstDate = Date.UTC(2015,01,2);
var secondDate = Date.UTC(2015,04,22);
var diff = Math.abs((firstDate.valueOf() 
    - secondDate.valueOf())/(24*60*60*1000));

This example gives difference 109 days. 24*60*60*1000 is one day in milliseconds.

Bookmarklet version of other answers, prompting you for both dates:

javascript:(function() {
    var d = new Date(prompt("First Date or leave blank for today?") || Date.now());
    prompt("Days Between", Math.round(
        Math.abs(
            (d.getTime() - new Date(prompt("Date 2")).getTime())
                /(24*60*60*1000)
             )
        ));
})();

A contribution, for date before 1970-01-01 and after 2038-01-19

function DateDiff(aDate1, aDate2) {
  let dDay = 0;
  this.isBissexto = (aYear) => {
    return (aYear % 4 == 0 && aYear % 100 != 0) || (aYear % 400 == 0);
  };
  this.getDayOfYear = (aDate) => {
    let count = 0;
    for (let m = 0; m < aDate.getUTCMonth(); m++) {
      count += m == 1 ? this.isBissexto(aDate.getUTCFullYear()) ? 29 : 28 : /(3|5|8|10)/.test(m) ? 30 : 31;
    }
    count += aDate.getUTCDate();
    return count;
  };
  this.toDays = () => {
    return dDay;
  };
  (() => {
    let startDate = aDate1.getTime() <= aDate2.getTime() ? new Date(aDate1.toISOString()) : new Date(aDate2.toISOString());
    let endDate = aDate1.getTime() <= aDate2.getTime() ? new Date(aDate2.toISOString()) : new Date(aDate1.toISOString());
    while (startDate.getUTCFullYear() != endDate.getUTCFullYear()) {
      dDay += (this.isBissexto(startDate.getFullYear())? 366 : 365) - this.getDayOfYear(startDate) + 1;
      startDate = new Date(startDate.getUTCFullYear()+1, 0, 1);
    }
    dDay += this.getDayOfYear(endDate) - this.getDayOfYear(startDate);
  })();
}

I would go ahead and grab this small utility and in it you will find functions to this for you. Here's a short example:

        <script type="text/javascript" src="date.js"></script>
        <script type="text/javascript">
            var minutes = 1000*60;
            var hours = minutes*60;
            var days = hours*24;

            var foo_date1 = getDateFromFormat("02/10/2009", "M/d/y");
            var foo_date2 = getDateFromFormat("02/12/2009", "M/d/y");

            var diff_date = Math.round((foo_date2 - foo_date1)/days);
            alert("Diff date is: " + diff_date );
        </script>

I recommend using the moment.js library (http://momentjs.com/docs/#/displaying/difference/). It handles daylight savings time correctly and in general is great to work with.

Example:

var start = moment("2013-11-03");
var end = moment("2013-11-04");
end.diff(start, "days")
1

As of this writing, only one of the other answers correctly handles DST (daylight saving time) transitions. Here are the results on a system located in California:

                                        1/1/2013- 3/10/2013- 11/3/2013-
User       Formula                      2/1/2013  3/11/2013  11/4/2013  Result
---------  ---------------------------  --------  ---------  ---------  ---------
Miles                   (d2 - d1) / N   31        0.9583333  1.0416666  Incorrect
some         Math.floor((d2 - d1) / N)  31        0          1          Incorrect
fuentesjr    Math.round((d2 - d1) / N)  31        1          1          Correct
toloco     Math.ceiling((d2 - d1) / N)  31        1          2          Incorrect

N = 86400000

Although Math.round returns the correct results, I think it's somewhat clunky. Instead, by explicitly accounting for changes to the UTC offset when DST begins or ends, we can use exact arithmetic:

function treatAsUTC(date) {
    var result = new Date(date);
    result.setMinutes(result.getMinutes() - result.getTimezoneOffset());
    return result;
}

function daysBetween(startDate, endDate) {
    var millisecondsPerDay = 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000;
    return (treatAsUTC(endDate) - treatAsUTC(startDate)) / millisecondsPerDay;
}

alert(daysBetween($('#first').val(), $('#second').val()));

Explanation

JavaScript date calculations are tricky because Date objects store times internally in UTC, not local time. For example, 3/10/2013 12:00 AM Pacific Standard Time (UTC-08:00) is stored as 3/10/2013 8:00 AM UTC, and 3/11/2013 12:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time (UTC-07:00) is stored as 3/11/2013 7:00 AM UTC. On this day, midnight to midnight local time is only 23 hours in UTC!

Although a day in local time can have more or less than 24 hours, a day in UTC is always exactly 24 hours.¹ The daysBetween method shown above takes advantage of this fact by first calling treatAsUTC to adjust both local times to midnight UTC, before subtracting and dividing.

^{1. JavaScript ignores leap seconds.}

Date values in JS are datetime values.

So, direct date computations are inconsistent:

(2013-11-05 00:00:00) - (2013-11-04 10:10:10) < 1 day

for example we need to convert de 2nd date:

(2013-11-05 00:00:00) - (2013-11-04 00:00:00) = 1 day

the method could be truncate the mills in both dates:

var date1 = new Date('2013/11/04 00:00:00');_x000D_
var date2 = new Date('2013/11/04 10:10:10'); //less than 1_x000D_
var start = Math.floor(date1.getTime() / (3600 * 24 * 1000)); //days as integer from.._x000D_
var end = Math.floor(date2.getTime() / (3600 * 24 * 1000)); //days as integer from.._x000D_
var daysDiff = end - start; // exact dates_x000D_
console.log(daysDiff);_x000D_
_x000D_
date2 = new Date('2013/11/05 00:00:00'); //1_x000D_
_x000D_
var start = Math.floor(date1.getTime() / (3600 * 24 * 1000)); //days as integer from.._x000D_
var end = Math.floor(date2.getTime() / (3600 * 24 * 1000)); //days as integer from.._x000D_
var daysDiff = end - start; // exact dates_x000D_
console.log(daysDiff);

var start= $("#firstDate").datepicker("getDate");
var end= $("#SecondDate").datepicker("getDate");
var days = (end- start) / (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24);
 alert(Math.round(days));

jsfiddle example :)

If you have two unix timestamps, you can use this function (made a little more verbose for the sake of clarity):

// Calculate number of days between two unix timestamps
// ------------------------------------------------------------
var daysBetween = function(timeStampA, timeStampB) {
    var oneDay = 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000; // hours * minutes * seconds * milliseconds
    var firstDate = new Date(timeStampA * 1000);
    var secondDate = new Date(timeStampB * 1000);
    var diffDays = Math.round(Math.abs((firstDate.getTime() - secondDate.getTime())/(oneDay)));
    return diffDays;
};

Example:

daysBetween(1096580303, 1308713220); // 2455

Using moment will be much easier in this case, You could try this:

    let days = moment(yourFirstDateString).diff(moment(yourSecondDateString), 'days');

It will give you integer value like 1,2,5,0etc so you can easily use condition check like:

if(days < 1) {

Also, one more thing is you can get more accurate result of the time difference (in decimals like 1.2,1.5,0.7etc) to get this kind of result use this syntax:

let days = moment(yourFirstDateString).diff(moment(yourSecondDateString), 'days', true);

Let me know if you have any further query

Using Moment.js

var future = moment('05/02/2015');_x000D_
var start = moment('04/23/2015');_x000D_
var d = future.diff(start, 'days'); // 9_x000D_
console.log(d);

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/moment.js/2.17.1/moment-with-locales.min.js"></script>

The simple way to calculate days between two dates is to remove both of their time component i.e. setting hours, minutes, seconds and milliseconds to 0 and then subtracting their time and diving it with milliseconds worth of one day.

var firstDate= new Date(firstDate.setHours(0,0,0,0));
var secondDate= new Date(secondDate.setHours(0,0,0,0));
var timeDiff = firstDate.getTime() - secondDate.getTime();
var diffDays =timeDiff / (1000 * 3600 * 24);

What about using formatDate from DatePicker widget? You could use it to convert the dates in timestamp format (milliseconds since 01/01/1970) and then do a simple subtraction.

Steps

1. Set start date
2. Set end date
3. Calculate difference
4. Convert milliseconds to days

Native JS

const startDate  = '2020-01-01';
const endDate    = '2020-03-15';

const diffInMs   = new Date(endDate) - new Date(startDate)
const diffInDays = diffInMs / (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24);

Comment

I know this is not part of your questions but in general, I would not recommend doing any date calculation or manipulation in vanilla JavaScript and rather use a library like date-fns, Luxon or moment.js for it due to many edge cases.

Using a library

Date-fns

https://date-fns.org/v2.16.1/docs/differenceInDays

const differenceInDays = require('date-fns/differenceInDays');

const startDate  = '2020-01-01';
const endDate    = '2020-03-15';

const diffInDays = differenceInDays(new Date(endDate), new Date(startDate));

Luxon

https://moment.github.io/luxon/docs/class/src/datetime.js~DateTime.html#instance-method-diff

const { DateTime } = require('luxon');

const startDate  = '2020-01-01';
const endDate    = '2020-03-15';

const diffInDays = DateTime.fromISO(endDate).diff(DateTime.fromISO(startDate), 'days').toObject().days;

Moment.js

https://momentjs.com/docs/#/displaying/difference/

const moment = require('moment');

const startDate  = '2020-01-01';
const endDate    = '2020-03-15';

const diffInDays = moment(endDate).diff(moment(startDate), 'days');

Examples on RunKit

https://runkit.com/marcobiedermann/5f573e211e85e7001a37ab00

To Calculate days between 2 given dates you can use the following code.Dates I use here are Jan 01 2016 and Dec 31 2016

var day_start = new Date("Jan 01 2016");_x000D_
var day_end = new Date("Dec 31 2016");_x000D_
var total_days = (day_end - day_start) / (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24);_x000D_
document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = Math.round(total_days);

<h3>DAYS BETWEEN GIVEN DATES</h3>_x000D_
<p id="demo"></p>

Be careful when using milliseconds.

The date.getTime() returns milliseconds and doing math operation with milliseconds requires to include

• Daylight Saving Time (DST)
• checking if both dates have the same time (hours, minutes, seconds, milliseconds)
• make sure what behavior of days diff is required: 19 September 2016 - 29 September 2016 = 1 or 2 days difference?

The example from comment above is the best solution I found so far https://stackoverflow.com/a/11252167/2091095 . But use +1 to its result if you want the to count all days involved.

function treatAsUTC(date) {
    var result = new Date(date);
    result.setMinutes(result.getMinutes() - result.getTimezoneOffset());
    return result;
}

function daysBetween(startDate, endDate) {
    var millisecondsPerDay = 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000;
    return (treatAsUTC(endDate) - treatAsUTC(startDate)) / millisecondsPerDay;
}

var diff = daysBetween($('#first').val(), $('#second').val()) + 1;

I found this question when I want do some calculate on two date, but the date have hours and minutes value, I modified @michael-liu 's answer to fit my requirement, and it passed my test.

diff days 2012-12-31 23:00 and 2013-01-01 01:00 should equal 1. (2 hour) diff days 2012-12-31 01:00 and 2013-01-01 23:00 should equal 1. (46 hour)

function treatAsUTC(date) {
    var result = new Date(date);
    result.setMinutes(result.getMinutes() - result.getTimezoneOffset());
    return result;
}

var millisecondsPerDay = 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000;
function diffDays(startDate, endDate) {
    return Math.floor(treatAsUTC(endDate) / millisecondsPerDay) - Math.floor(treatAsUTC(startDate) / millisecondsPerDay);
}

You can use UnderscoreJS for formatting and calculating difference.

Demo https://jsfiddle.net/sumitridhal/8sv94msp/

 var startDate = moment("2016-08-29T23:35:01");_x000D_
var endDate = moment("2016-08-30T23:35:01");  _x000D_
  _x000D_
_x000D_
console.log(startDate);_x000D_
console.log(endDate);_x000D_
_x000D_
var resultHours = endDate.diff(startDate, 'hours', true);_x000D_
_x000D_
document.body.innerHTML = "";_x000D_
document.body.appendChild(document.createTextNode(resultHours));

body { white-space: pre; font-family: monospace; }

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/moment.js/2.5.1/moment.min.js"></script>

This answer, based on another one (link at end), is about the difference between two dates.
You can see how it works because it's simple, also it includes splitting the difference into
units of time (a function that I made) and converting to UTC to stop time zone problems.

function date_units_diff(a, b, unit_amounts) {_x000D_
    var split_to_whole_units = function (milliseconds, unit_amounts) {_x000D_
        // unit_amounts = list/array of amounts of milliseconds in a_x000D_
        // second, seconds in a minute, etc., for example "[1000, 60]"._x000D_
        time_data = [milliseconds];_x000D_
        for (i = 0; i < unit_amounts.length; i++) {_x000D_
            time_data.push(parseInt(time_data[i] / unit_amounts[i]));_x000D_
            time_data[i] = time_data[i] % unit_amounts[i];_x000D_
        }; return time_data.reverse();_x000D_
    }; if (unit_amounts == undefined) {_x000D_
        unit_amounts = [1000, 60, 60, 24];_x000D_
    };_x000D_
    var utc_a = new Date(a.toUTCString());_x000D_
    var utc_b = new Date(b.toUTCString());_x000D_
    var diff = (utc_b - utc_a);_x000D_
    return split_to_whole_units(diff, unit_amounts);_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
// Example of use:_x000D_
var d = date_units_diff(new Date(2010, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0), new Date()).slice(0,-2);_x000D_
document.write("In difference: 0 days, 1 hours, 2 minutes.".replace(_x000D_
   /0|1|2/g, function (x) {return String( d[Number(x)] );} ));

How my code above works

A date/time difference, as milliseconds, can be calculated using the Date object:

var a = new Date(); // Current date now.
var b = new Date(2010, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0); // Start of 2010.

var utc_a = new Date(a.toUTCString());
var utc_b = new Date(b.toUTCString());
var diff = (utc_b - utc_a); // The difference as milliseconds.

Then to work out the number of seconds in that difference, divide it by 1000 to convert
milliseconds to seconds, then change the result to an integer (whole number) to remove
the milliseconds (fraction part of that decimal): var seconds = parseInt(diff/1000).
Also, I could get longer units of time using the same process, for example:
- (whole) minutes, dividing seconds by 60 and changing the result to an integer,
- hours, dividing minutes by 60 and changing the result to an integer.

I created a function for doing that process of splitting the difference into
whole units of time, named split_to_whole_units, with this demo:

console.log(split_to_whole_units(72000, [1000, 60]));
// -> [1,12,0] # 1 (whole) minute, 12 seconds, 0 milliseconds.

This answer is based on this other one.

function formatDate(seconds, dictionary) {
    var foo = new Date;
    var unixtime_ms = foo.getTime();
    var unixtime = parseInt(unixtime_ms / 1000);
    var diff = unixtime - seconds;
    var display_date;
    if (diff <= 0) {
        display_date = dictionary.now;
    } else if (diff < 60) {
        if (diff == 1) {
            display_date = diff + ' ' + dictionary.second;
        } else {
            display_date = diff + ' ' + dictionary.seconds;
        }
    } else if (diff < 3540) {
        diff = Math.round(diff / 60);
        if (diff == 1) {
            display_date = diff + ' ' + dictionary.minute;
        } else {
            display_date = diff + ' ' + dictionary.minutes;
        }
    } else if (diff < 82800) {
        diff = Math.round(diff / 3600);
        if (diff == 1) {
            display_date = diff + ' ' + dictionary.hour;
        } else {
            display_date = diff + ' ' + dictionary.hours;
        }
    } else {
        diff = Math.round(diff / 86400);
        if (diff == 1) {
            display_date = diff + ' ' + dictionary.day;
        } else {
            display_date = diff + ' ' + dictionary.days;
        }
    }
    return display_date;
}

This is bit different answer if we want to calculate our age

    {
      birthday: 'April 22, 1993',
      names: {
        first: 'Keith',
        last: 'Buckley'
      }
    },
    {
      birthday: 'January 3, 1975',
      names: {
        first: 'Larry',
        last: 'Heep'
      }
    },
    {
      birthday: 'February 12, 1944',
      names: {
        first: 'Linda',
        last: 'Bermeer'
      }
    }
  ];
const cleanPeople = people.map(function ({birthday, names:{first, last}}) {
      // birthday, age, fullName;
      const now = new Date();
      var age =  Math.floor(( Date.parse(now) - Date.parse(birthday)) / 31536000000);
      return {
        age,
        fullName:`${first} ${last}`
      }
    });
    console.log(cleanPeople);
    console.table(cleanPeople);

I used below code to experiment the posting date functionality for a news post.I calculate the minute or hour or day or year based on the posting date and current date.

var startDate= new Date("Mon Jan 01 2007 11:00:00");
var endDate  =new Date("Tue Jan 02 2007 12:50:00");
var timeStart = startDate.getTime();
var timeEnd = endDate.getTime();
var yearStart = startDate.getFullYear();
var yearEnd   = endDate.getFullYear();
if(yearStart == yearEnd)
 {
  var hourDiff = timeEnd - timeStart; 
  var secDiff = hourDiff / 1000;
  var minDiff = hourDiff / 60 / 1000; 
  var hDiff = hourDiff / 3600 / 1000; 
  var myObj = {};
  myObj.hours = Math.floor(hDiff);
  myObj.minutes = minDiff  
  if(myObj.hours >= 24)
   {
    console.log(Math.floor(myObj.hours/24) + "day(s) ago")
   } 
 else if(myObj.hours>0)
  {
   console.log(myObj.hours +"hour(s) ago")
  }
 else
  {
   console.log(Math.abs(myObj.minutes) +"minute(s) ago")
  }
}
else
{
var yearDiff = yearEnd - yearStart;
console.log( yearDiff +" year(s) ago");
}

I had same issue, but it's better if you done it on SQL Query :

DateDiff(DAY, StartValue,GETDATE()) AS CountDays

the query will automatically generate a column CountDays

I took some inspiration from other answers and made the inputs have automatic sanitation. I hope this works well as an improvement over other answers.

//use best practices by labeling your constants.
let MS_PER_SEC = 1000
  , SEC_PER_HR = 60 * 60
  , HR_PER_DAY = 24
  , MS_PER_DAY = MS_PER_SEC * SEC_PER_HR * HR_PER_DAY
;

//let's assume we get Date objects as arguments, otherwise return 0.
function dateDiffInDays(date1, date2) {
    if (!date1 || !date2) {
      return 0;
    }
    return Math.round((date2.getTime() - date1.getTime()) / MS_PER_DAY);
}

// new Date("dateString") is browser-dependent and discouraged, so we'll write
// a simple parse function for U.S. date format. (by @Miles)
function parseDate(str) {
    if (str && str.length > 7 && str.length < 11) {
      let mdy = str.split('/');
      return new Date(mdy[2], mdy[0]-1, mdy[1]);
    }
    return null;
}

function calcInputs() {
  let date1 = document.getElementById("date1")
    , date2 = document.getElementById("date2")
    , resultSpan = document.getElementById("result")
  ;
  if (date1 && date2 && resultSpan) {
    //remove non-date characters
    let date1Val = date1.value.replace(/[^\d\/]/g,'')
      , date2Val = date2.value.replace(/[^\d\/]/g,'')
      , result = dateDiffInDays(parseDate(date1Val), parseDate(date2Val))
    ;
    date1.value = date1Val;
    date2.value = date2Val;
    resultSpan.innerHTML = result + " days";
  }
}
window.onload = function() { calcInputs(); };

//some code examples
console.log(dateDiffInDays(parseDate("1/15/2019"), parseDate("1/30/2019")));
console.log(dateDiffInDays(parseDate("1/15/2019"), parseDate("2/30/2019")));
console.log(dateDiffInDays(parseDate("1/15/2000"), parseDate("1/15/2019")));

<input id="date1" type="text" value="1/1/2000" size="6" onkeyup="calcInputs();" />
<input id="date2" type="text" value="1/1/2019" size="6" onkeyup="calcInputs();"/>
Result: <span id="result"></span>

Simple, easy, and sophisticated. This function will be called in every 1 sec to update time.

const year = (new Date().getFullYear());
const bdayDate = new Date("04,11,2019").getTime(); //mmddyyyy

// countdown
let timer = setInterval(function () {

    // get today's date
    const today = new Date().getTime();

    // get the difference
    const diff = bdayDate - today;

    // math
    let days = Math.floor(diff / (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24));
    let hours = Math.floor((diff % (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24)) / (1000 * 60 * 60));
    let minutes = Math.floor((diff % (1000 * 60 * 60)) / (1000 * 60));
    let seconds = Math.floor((diff % (1000 * 60)) / 1000);

}, 1000);

I had the same issue in Angular. I do the copy because else he will overwrite the first date. Both dates must have time 00:00:00 (obviously)

 /*
* Deze functie gebruiken we om het aantal dagen te bereken van een booking.
* */
$scope.berekenDagen = function ()
{
    $scope.booking.aantalDagen=0;

    /*De loper is gelijk aan de startdag van je reservatie.
     * De copy is nodig anders overschijft angular de booking.van.
     * */
    var loper = angular.copy($scope.booking.van);

    /*Zolang de reservatie beschikbaar is, doorloop de weekdagen van je start tot einddatum.*/
    while (loper < $scope.booking.tot) {
        /*Tel een dag op bij je loper.*/
        loper.setDate(loper.getDate() + 1);
        $scope.booking.aantalDagen++;
    }

    /*Start datum telt natuurlijk ook mee*/
    $scope.booking.aantalDagen++;
    $scope.infomsg +=" aantal dagen: "+$scope.booking.aantalDagen;
};

I recently had the same question, and coming from a Java world, I immediately started to search for a JSR 310 implementation for JavaScript. JSR 310 is a Date and Time API for Java (standard shipped as of Java 8). I think the API is very well designed.

Fortunately, there is a direct port to Javascript, called js-joda.

First, include js-joda in the <head>:

<script
    src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/js-joda/1.11.0/js-joda.min.js"
    integrity="sha512-piLlO+P2f15QHjUv0DEXBd4HvkL03Orhi30Ur5n1E4Gk2LE4BxiBAP/AD+dxhxpW66DiMY2wZqQWHAuS53RFDg=="
    crossorigin="anonymous"></script>

Then simply do this:

let date1 = JSJoda.LocalDate.of(2020, 12, 1);
let date2 = JSJoda.LocalDate.of(2021, 1, 1);
let daysBetween = JSJoda.ChronoUnit.DAYS.between(date1, date2);

Now daysBetween contains the number of days between. Note that the end date is exclusive.

   function validateDate() {
        // get dates from input fields
        var startDate = $("#startDate").val();
        var endDate = $("#endDate").val();
        var sdate = startDate.split("-");
        var edate = endDate.split("-");
        var diffd = (edate[2] - sdate[2]) + 1;
        var leap = [ 0, 31, 29, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31 ];
        var nonleap = [ 0, 31, 28, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31 ];
        if (sdate[0] > edate[0]) {
            alert("Please enter End Date Year greater than Start Date Year");
            document.getElementById("endDate").value = "";
            diffd = "";
        } else if (sdate[1] > edate[1]) {
            alert("Please enter End Date month greater than Start Date month");
            document.getElementById("endDate").value = "";
            diffd = "";
        } else if (sdate[2] > edate[2]) {
            alert("Please enter End Date greater than Start Date");
            document.getElementById("endDate").value = "";
            diffd = "";
        } else {
            if (sdate[0] / 4 == 0) {
                while (sdate[1] < edate[1]) {
                    diffd = diffd + leap[sdate[1]++];
                }
            } else {
                while (sdate[1] < edate[1]) {
                    diffd = diffd + nonleap[sdate[1]++];
                }
            }
            document.getElementById("numberOfDays").value = diffd;
        }
    }

if you wanna have an DateArray with dates try this:

<script>
        function getDates(startDate, stopDate) {
        var dateArray = new Array();
        var currentDate = moment(startDate);
        dateArray.push( moment(currentDate).format('L'));

        var stopDate = moment(stopDate);
        while (dateArray[dateArray.length -1] != stopDate._i) {
            dateArray.push( moment(currentDate).format('L'));
            currentDate = moment(currentDate).add(1, 'days');
        }
        return dateArray;
      }
</script>

DebugSnippet

This may not be the most elegant solution, but it seems to answer the question with a relatively simple bit of code, I think. Can't you use something like this:

function dayDiff(startdate, enddate) {
  var dayCount = 0;

  while(enddate >= startdate) {
    dayCount++;
    startdate.setDate(startdate.getDate() + 1);
  }

return dayCount; 
}

This is assuming you are passing date objects as parameters.

It is possible to calculate a full proof days difference between two dates resting across different TZs using the following formula:

var start = new Date('10/3/2015');_x000D_
var end = new Date('11/2/2015');_x000D_
var days = (end - start) / 1000 / 60 / 60 / 24;_x000D_
console.log(days);_x000D_
// actually its 30 ; but due to daylight savings will show 31.0xxx_x000D_
// which you need to offset as below_x000D_
days = days - (end.getTimezoneOffset() - start.getTimezoneOffset()) / (60 * 24);_x000D_
console.log(days);