How To Get Hours Since Last Webpage Visit In Javascript

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How do I go about displaying the amount of hours since the last time the user visited the webpage? I want to do this in Javascript preferably, but JQuery is fine too.

You can't possibly do that with client side script. At least for a long term. Try storing the time in your server for that. — Shah Abaz Khan, Feb 07 '17 at 08:27
You can store the last visit time as a cookie then read from it and do some math to figure it out. — Woowing, Feb 07 '17 at 08:29
You just answered your own question if you want to do it client side. — urbz, Feb 07 '17 at 08:40

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:09

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Assuming you have getCookie and setCookie functions:

const lastVisit = getCookie('lastVisitTime');
const now = Date.now();
if (lastVisit) {
   const hoursSinceLastTime = Math.ceil((parseInt(lastVisit) - now) / 3600);
   alert(`It's been ${hoursSinceLastTime} hour(s) since you last visited us.`);
}
setCookie('lastVisitTime', now);

edited May 23 '17 at 12:09

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answered Feb 07 '17 at 08:54

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So do I just paste this in a script tag and it should work? – Woowing Feb 07 '17 at 09:10
It doesn't seem to do anything straight away. – Woowing Feb 07 '17 at 09:12
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It will work if you have the corresponding `setCookie` (3-arity usually) and `getCookie` functions. I linked you a stack overflow question with many implementations to chose from. – lleaff Feb 07 '17 at 09:12
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Thank you! I tweaked its design and now it works perfectly! – Woowing Feb 07 '17 at 23:53

How To Get Hours Since Last Webpage Visit In Javascript

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