Javascript - get array of dates between 2 dates

Question

var range = getDates(new Date(), new Date().addDays(7));

I'd like "range" to be an array of date objects, one for each day between the two dates.

The trick is that it should handle month and year boundaries as well.

Answer 1

Date.prototype.addDays = function(days) {
    var date = new Date(this.valueOf());
    date.setDate(date.getDate() + days);
    return date;
}

function getDates(startDate, stopDate) {
    var dateArray = new Array();
    var currentDate = startDate;
    while (currentDate <= stopDate) {
        dateArray.push(new Date (currentDate));
        currentDate = currentDate.addDays(1);
    }
    return dateArray;
}

Here is a functional demo http://jsfiddle.net/jfhartsock/cM3ZU/

Answer 2

I looked all the ones above. Ended up writing myself. You do not need momentjs for this. A native for loop is enough and makes most sense because a for loop exists to count values in a range.

One Liner:

var getDaysArray = function(s,e) {for(var a=[],d=new Date(s);d<=new Date(e);d.setDate(d.getDate()+1)){ a.push(new Date(d));}return a;};

Long Version

var getDaysArray = function(start, end) {
    for(var arr=[],dt=new Date(start); dt<=new Date(end); dt.setDate(dt.getDate()+1)){
        arr.push(new Date(dt));
    }
    return arr;
};

List dates in between:

var daylist = getDaysArray(new Date("2018-05-01"),new Date("2018-07-01"));
daylist.map((v)=>v.toISOString().slice(0,10)).join("")
/*
Output: 
    "2018-05-01
    2018-05-02
    2018-05-03
    ...
    2018-06-30
    2018-07-01"
*/

Days from a past date until now:

var daylist = getDaysArray(new Date("2018-05-01"),new Date());
daylist.map((v)=>v.toISOString().slice(0,10)).join("")

Answer 3

Try this, remember to include moment js,

function getDates(startDate, stopDate) {
    var dateArray = [];
    var currentDate = moment(startDate);
    var stopDate = moment(stopDate);
    while (currentDate <= stopDate) {
        dateArray.push( moment(currentDate).format('YYYY-MM-DD') )
        currentDate = moment(currentDate).add(1, 'days');
    }
    return dateArray;
}

Answer 4

I had trouble using the answers above. The date ranges were missing single days due to timezone shift caused by the local day light saving time (DST). I implemented a version using UTC dates that fixes that problem:

function dateRange(startDate, endDate, steps = 1) {
  const dateArray = [];
  let currentDate = new Date(startDate);

  while (currentDate <= new Date(endDate)) {
    dateArray.push(new Date(currentDate));
    // Use UTC date to prevent problems with time zones and DST
    currentDate.setUTCDate(currentDate.getUTCDate() + steps);
  }

  return dateArray;
}

const dates = dateRange('2020-09-27', '2020-10-28');
console.log(dates);

Note: Whether a certain timezone or DST is applied, depends entirely on your locale. Overriding this is generally not a good idea. Using UTC dates mitigates most of the time related problems.

Bonus: You can set the time interval for which you want to create timestamps with the optional steps parameter. If you want weekly timetamps set steps to 7.

Answer 5

I use moment.js and Twix.js they provide a very great support for date and time manpulation

var itr = moment.twix(new Date('2012-01-15'),new Date('2012-01-20')).iterate("days");
var range=[];
while(itr.hasNext()){
    range.push(itr.next().toDate())
}
console.log(range);

I have this running on http://jsfiddle.net/Lkzg1bxb/

Answer 6

var boxingDay = new Date("12/26/2010");
var nextWeek  = boxingDay*1 + 7*24*3600*1000;

function getDates( d1, d2 ){
  var oneDay = 24*3600*1000;
  for (var d=[],ms=d1*1,last=d2*1;ms<last;ms+=oneDay){
    d.push( new Date(ms) );
  }
  return d;
}

getDates( boxingDay, nextWeek ).join("\n");
// Sun Dec 26 2010 00:00:00 GMT-0700 (Mountain Standard Time)
// Mon Dec 27 2010 00:00:00 GMT-0700 (Mountain Standard Time)
// Tue Dec 28 2010 00:00:00 GMT-0700 (Mountain Standard Time)
// Wed Dec 29 2010 00:00:00 GMT-0700 (Mountain Standard Time)
// Thu Dec 30 2010 00:00:00 GMT-0700 (Mountain Standard Time)
// Fri Dec 31 2010 00:00:00 GMT-0700 (Mountain Standard Time)
// Sat Jan 01 2011 00:00:00 GMT-0700 (Mountain Standard Time)

Answer 7

If you are using moment then you can use their "official plugin" for ranges moment-range and then this becomes trivial.

moment-range node example:

const Moment = require('moment');
const MomentRange = require('moment-range');
const moment = MomentRange.extendMoment(Moment);

const start = new Date("11/30/2018"), end = new Date("09/30/2019")
const range = moment.range(moment(start), moment(end));

console.log(Array.from(range.by('day')))

moment-range browser example:

window['moment-range'].extendMoment(moment);

const start = new Date("11/30/2018"), end = new Date("09/30/2019")
const range = moment.range(moment(start), moment(end));

console.log(Array.from(range.by('day')))

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/moment.js/2.22.2/moment.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/moment-range/4.0.1/moment-range.js"></script>

date fns example:

If you are using date-fns then eachDay is your friend and you get by far the shortest and most concise answer:

console.log(dateFns.eachDay(
  new Date(2018, 11, 30),
  new Date(2019, 30, 09)
))

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/date-fns/1.29.0/date_fns.min.js"></script>

Answer 8

function (startDate, endDate, addFn, interval) {

 addFn = addFn || Date.prototype.addDays;
 interval = interval || 1;

 var retVal = [];
 var current = new Date(startDate);

 while (current <= endDate) {
  retVal.push(new Date(current));
  current = addFn.call(current, interval);
 }

 return retVal;

}

Answer 9

Using ES6 you have Array.from meaning you can write a really elegant function, that allows for dynamic Intervals (hours, days, months).

function getDates(startDate, endDate, interval) {
const duration = endDate - startDate;
const steps = duration / interval;
return Array.from({length: steps+1}, (v,i) => new Date(startDate.valueOf() + (interval * i)));
}
const startDate = new Date(2017,12,30);
const endDate = new Date(2018,1,3);
const dayInterval = 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24; // 1 day
const halfDayInterval = 1000 * 60 * 60 * 12; // 1/2 day

console.log("Days", getDates(startDate, endDate, dayInterval));
console.log("Half Days", getDates(startDate, endDate, halfDayInterval));

Answer 10

Just came across this question, the easiest way to do this is using moment:

You need to install moment and moment-range first:

const Moment = require('moment');
const MomentRange = require('moment-range');
const moment = MomentRange.extendMoment(Moment);

const start = moment()
const end = moment().add(2, 'months')
const range = moment.range(start, end)
const arrayOfDates = Array.from(range.by('days'))
console.log(arrayOfDates)

Answer 11

I was recently working with moment.js, following did the trick..

function getDateRange(startDate, endDate, dateFormat) {
        var dates = [],
            end = moment(endDate),
            diff = endDate.diff(startDate, 'days');

        if(!startDate.isValid() || !endDate.isValid() || diff <= 0) {
            return;
        }

        for(var i = 0; i < diff; i++) {
            dates.push(end.subtract(1,'d').format(dateFormat));
        }

        return dates;
    };
    console.log(getDateRange(startDate, endDate, dateFormat));

Result would be:

["09/03/2015", "10/03/2015", "11/03/2015", "12/03/2015", "13/03/2015", "14/03/2015", "15/03/2015", "16/03/2015", "17/03/2015", "18/03/2015"]

Answer 12

I have been using @Mohammed Safeer solution for a while and I made a few improvements. Using formated dates is a bad practice while working in your controllers. moment().format() should be used only for display purposes in views. Also remember that moment().clone() ensures separation from input parameters, meaning that the input dates are not altered. I strongly encourage you to use moment.js when working with dates.

Usage:

• Provide moment.js dates as values for startDate, endDate parameters
• interval parameter is optional and defaults to 'days'. Use intervals suported by .add() method (moment.js). More details here
• total parameter is useful when specifying intervals in minutes. It defaults to 1.

Invoke:

var startDate = moment(),
    endDate = moment().add(1, 'days');

getDatesRangeArray(startDate, endDate, 'minutes', 30);

Function:

var getDatesRangeArray = function (startDate, endDate, interval, total) {
    var config = {
            interval: interval || 'days',
            total: total || 1
        },
        dateArray = [],
        currentDate = startDate.clone();

    while (currentDate < endDate) {
        dateArray.push(currentDate);
        currentDate = currentDate.clone().add(config.total, config.interval);
    }

    return dateArray;
};

Answer 13

var listDate = [];
var startDate ='2017-02-01';
var endDate = '2017-02-10';
var dateMove = new Date(startDate);
var strDate = startDate;

while (strDate < endDate){
  var strDate = dateMove.toISOString().slice(0,10);
  listDate.push(strDate);
  dateMove.setDate(dateMove.getDate()+1);
};
console.log(listDate);

//["2017-02-01", "2017-02-02", "2017-02-03", "2017-02-04", "2017-02-05", "2017-02-06", "2017-02-07", "2017-02-08", "2017-02-09", "2017-02-10"]

Answer 14

I'm using simple while loop to calculate the between dates

var start = new Date("01/05/2017");
var end = new Date("06/30/2017");
var newend = end.setDate(end.getDate()+1);
end = new Date(newend);
while(start < end){
   console.log(new Date(start).getTime() / 1000); // unix timestamp format
   console.log(start); // ISO Date format          
   var newDate = start.setDate(start.getDate() + 1);
   start = new Date(newDate);
}

Answer 15

Array(7).fill().map((_,i) => dayjs().subtract(i, "day").format("YYYY-MM-DD"));

Answer 16

That's another few lines solution using date-fns library:

const { format, differenceInDays, addDays } = dateFns;

const getRangeDates = (startDate, endDate) => {
  const days = differenceInDays(endDate, startDate);
  console.log([...Array(days + 1).keys()].map((i) => format(addDays(startDate, i), 'YYYY-MM-DD')));
};

getRangeDates('2021-06-01', '2021-06-05');

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/date-fns/1.30.1/date_fns.js"></script>

Answer 17

Using JavaScript

const getDatesBetween = (startDate, endDate, includeEndDate) => {
    const dates = [];
    const currentDate = startDate;
    while (currentDate < endDate) {
        dates.push(new Date(currentDate));
        currentDate.setDate(currentDate.getDate() + 1);
    }
    if (includeEndDate) dates.push(endDate);
    return dates;
};

Using TypeScript

const getDatesBetween = (
  startDate: Date,
  endDate: Date,
  includeEndDate?: boolean
) => {
  const dates = [];
  const currentDate = startDate;
  while (currentDate < endDate) {
    dates.push(new Date(currentDate));
    currentDate.setDate(currentDate.getDate() + 1);
  }
  if (includeEndDate) dates.push(endDate);
  return dates;
};

Example

console.log(getDatesBetween(new Date(2020, 0, 1), new Date(2020, 0, 3)));
console.log(getDatesBetween(new Date(2020, 0, 1), new Date(2020, 0, 3), true));

Answer 18

Here's a one liner that doesn't require any libraries in-case you don't want to create another function. Just replace startDate (in two places) and endDate (which are js date objects) with your variables or date values. Of course you could wrap it in a function if you prefer

Array(Math.floor((endDate - startDate) / 86400000) + 1).fill().map((_, idx) => (new Date(startDate.getTime() + idx * 86400000)))

Answer 19

I use this function

function getDatesRange(startDate, stopDate) {
    const ONE_DAY = 24*3600*1000;
    var days= [];
    var currentDate = new Date(startDate);
    while (currentDate <= stopDate) {
        days.push(new Date (currentDate));
        currentDate = currentDate - 1 + 1 + ONE_DAY;
    }
    return days;
}

Answer 20

You can do it easily using momentJS

Add moment to your dependencies

npm i moment

Then import that in your file

var moment = require("moment");

Then use the following code to get the list of all dates between two dates

let dates = [];
let currDate = moment.utc(new Date("06/30/2019")).startOf("day");
let lastDate = moment.utc(new Date("07/30/2019")).startOf("day");

do {
 dates.push(currDate.clone().toDate());
} while (currDate.add(1, "days").diff(lastDate) < 0);
dates.push(currDate.clone().toDate());

console.log(dates);

Answer 21

Not a shortest possible but easy, immutable and without dependencies

function datesArray(start, end) {
    let result = [], current = new Date(start);
    while (current <= end)
        result.push(current) && (current = new Date(current)) && current.setDate(current.getDate() + 1);
    return result;
}

Usage

function datesArray(start, end) {
    let result = [], current = new Date(start);
    while (current <= end)
        result.push(current) && (current = new Date(current)) && current.setDate(current.getDate() + 1);
    return result;
 }

//  Usage

const test = datesArray(
  new Date('2020-02-26'), 
  new Date('2020-03-05')
 );

for (let i = 0; i < test.length; i ++ ) {
    console.log(
      test[i].toISOString().slice(0,10)
    );
}

Answer 22

d3js provides a lot of handy functions and includes d3.time for easy date manipulations

https://github.com/d3/d3-time

For your specific request:

Utc

var range = d3.utcDay.range(new Date(), d3.utcDay.offset(new Date(), 7));

or local time

var range = d3.timeDay.range(new Date(), d3.timeDay.offset(new Date(), 7));

range will be an array of date objects that fall on the first possible value for each day

you can change timeDay to timeHour, timeMonth etc for the same results on different intervals

Answer 23

@softvar's solution, but then including working dates option

/**
 * Returns array of working days between two dates.
 *
 * @param {string} startDate
 *   The start date in yyyy-mm-dd format.
 * @param {string} endDate
 *   The end date in yyyy-mm-dd format.
 * @param {boolean} onlyWorkingDays
 *   If true only working days are returned. Default: false
 *
 * @return {array}
 *   Array of dates in yyyy-mm-dd string format.
 */
function getDates(startDate, stopDate, onlyWorkingDays) {
  let doWd = typeof onlyWorkingDays ==='undefined' ? false : onlyWorkingDays;

  let dateArray = [];  
  let dayNr;
  let runDateObj = moment(startDate);  
  let stopDateObj = moment(stopDate);

  while (runDateObj <= stopDateObj) {
    dayNr = runDateObj.day();
    if (!doWd || (dayNr>0 && dayNr<6)) {
     dateArray.push(moment(runDateObj).format('YYYY-MM-DD'));  
    }

    runDateObj = moment(runDateObj).add(1, 'days');
  }
  return dateArray;
}

Answer 24

This is how i like to do it

// hours * minutes * seconds * milliseconds
const DAY_IN_MS = 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000

/**
 * Get range of dates 
 * @param {Date} startDate 
 * @param {Number} numOfDays 
 * @returns {array}
 */
const dateRange = (startDate, numOfDays) => {
    const startDateMs = startDate.getTime()

    // get array of days and map it to Date object
    return [...Array(numOfDays).keys()].map(i => new Date(startDateMs + i * DAY_IN_MS))
}

Answer 25

Note: I'm aware this is slightly different than the requested solution, but I think many will find it useful.

If you want to find each "x" intervals (days, months, years, etc...) between two dates, moment.js and the moment-range extension packages enable this functionality.

For example, to find each 30th day between two dates:

window['moment-range'].extendMoment(moment);

var dateString = "2018-05-12 17:32:34.874-08";
var start  = new Date(dateString);
var end    = new Date();
var range1 = moment.range(start, end);
var arrayOfIntervalDates = Array.from(range1.by('day', { step: 30 }));

arrayOfIntervalDates.map(function(intervalDate){
  console.log(intervalDate.format('YY-M-DD'))
});

Answer 26

1. Generate an array of years:

   const DAYS = () => {
    const days = []
    const dateStart = moment()
    const dateEnd = moment().add(30, ‘days')
    while (dateEnd.diff(dateStart, ‘days') >= 0) {
     days.push(dateStart.format(‘D'))
     dateStart.add(1, ‘days')
    }
    return days
   }
   console.log(DAYS())
   

2. Generate an arrays for month:

           const MONTHS = () => {
            const months = []
            const dateStart = moment()
            const dateEnd = moment().add(12, ‘month')
            while (dateEnd.diff(dateStart, ‘months') >= 0) {
             months.push(dateStart.format(‘M'))
             dateStart.add(1, ‘month')
            }
            return months
           }
           console.log(MONTHS())
   

3. Generate an arrays for days:

           const DAYS = () => {
            const days = []
            const dateStart = moment()
            const dateEnd = moment().add(30, ‘days')
            while (dateEnd.diff(dateStart, ‘days') >= 0) {
             days.push(dateStart.format(‘D'))
             dateStart.add(1, ‘days')
            }
            return days
           }
           console.log(DAYS())
   

Answer 27

Using lodash & moment:

const startDate = moment();
_.range(0, 7).map((d) => startDate.clone().add(d, 'day').toDate())

Answer 28

This may help someone,

You can get the row output from this and format the row_date object as you want.

var from_date = '2016-01-01';
var to_date = '2016-02-20';

var dates = getDates(from_date, to_date);

console.log(dates);

function getDates(from_date, to_date) {
  var current_date = new Date(from_date);
  var end_date     = new Date(to_date);

  var getTimeDiff = Math.abs(current_date.getTime() - end_date.getTime());
  var date_range = Math.ceil(getTimeDiff / (1000 * 3600 * 24)) + 1 ;

  var weekday = ["SUN", "MON", "TUE", "WED", "THU", "FRI", "SAT"];
  var months = ["JAN", "FEB", "MAR", "APR", "MAY", "JUN", "JUL", "AUG", "SEP", "OCT", "NOV", "DEC"];
  var dates = new Array();

  for (var i = 0; i <= date_range; i++) {
     var getDate, getMonth = '';

     if(current_date.getDate() < 10) { getDate = ('0'+ current_date.getDate());}
     else{getDate = current_date.getDate();}

    if(current_date.getMonth() < 9) { getMonth = ('0'+ (current_date.getMonth()+1));}
    else{getMonth = current_date.getMonth();}

    var row_date = {day: getDate, month: getMonth, year: current_date.getFullYear()};
    var fmt_date = {weekDay: weekday[current_date.getDay()], date: getDate, month: months[current_date.getMonth()]};
    var is_weekend = false;
    if (current_date.getDay() == 0 || current_date.getDay() == 6) {
        is_weekend = true;
    }
    dates.push({row_date: row_date, fmt_date: fmt_date, is_weekend: is_weekend});
    current_date.setDate(current_date.getDate() + 1);
 }
 return dates;
}

https://gist.github.com/pranid/3c78f36253cbbc6a41a859c5d718f362.js

Answer 29

Here's a canned method that will accept Moment dates or strings or a mixture as inputs and generate an array of dates as Moment dates. If you don't want Moment dates as output then change what the map() method returns.

const moment = require('moment');

// ...

/**
 * @param {string|import('moment').Moment} start
 * @param {string|import('moment').Moment} end
 * @returns {import('moment').Moment[]}
 */
const getDateRange = (start, end) => {
  const s = moment.isMoment(start) ? start : moment(start);
  const e = moment.isMoment(end) ? end : moment(end);
  return [...Array(1 + e.diff(s, 'days')).keys()].map(n => moment(s).add(n, 'days'));
};

Answer 30

Function:

  var dates = [],
      currentDate = startDate,
      addDays = function(days) {
        var date = new Date(this.valueOf());
        date.setDate(date.getDate() + days);
        return date;
      };
  while (currentDate <= endDate) {
    dates.push(currentDate);
    currentDate = addDays.call(currentDate, 1);
  }
  return dates;
};

Usage:

var dates = getDatesRange(new Date(2019,01,01), new Date(2019,01,25));                                                                                                           
dates.forEach(function(date) {
  console.log(date);
});

Hope it helps you

Answer 31

getDates = (from, to) => {
    const cFrom = new Date(from);
    const cTo = new Date(to);

    let daysArr = [new Date(cFrom)];
    let tempDate = cFrom;

    while (tempDate < cTo) {
        tempDate.setUTCDate(tempDate.getUTCDate() + 1);
        daysArr.push(new Date(tempDate));
    }

    return daysArr;
}

Answer 32

you can use the third parameter as an interval

function arrayDateRange(start, stop, step) {
    if (step < 1000) return [start, stop];
    return Array.from({ length: (stop - start) / step + 1 }, (value, index) => {
        return new Date(start.getTime() + index * step)
    });
}

arrayDateRange(new Date('2023-01-01'),new Date('2023-01-15'),(1000*60*60*24))

Answer 33

This variant solves an issue in most of the answers given here: when the time of the end date is prior than the time of the start date, the last date will not be included in the resulting array.

function getDatesInRange(startDate, endDate) {
    const start = new Date(startDate);
    const dates = [];

    while (start.toISOString().slice(0, 10) <= endDate.toISOString().slice(0, 10)) {
        dates.push(new Date(start));
        start.setDate(start.getDate() + 1);
    }

    return dates;
}

By comparing the partial ISO string representation of the two dates we make sure only days are being counted.