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calculate the difference between two utc time and get the difference in minutes

I have two UTC strings, and I want to calculate their difference using javascript.

const stored = "2021-09-21T06:49:15.574Z"
const now = "2021-09-21T07:49:15.574Z"

I want the output to be in minutes.

Thanks in advance.

Solution

  • Please view https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date for more on how to use dates.

    // from https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date

// Using Date objects
let start = Date.now() - 3.6e+6;

// The event to time goes here:
let end = Date.now();
let elapsed = end - start; // elapsed time in milliseconds

let minutes = Math.floor(elapsed / 60000);

console.log(minutes);