Calculate time differences in nodejs from a manually created format

Question

I wanted to calculate the time differences (in minutes). However the data I gotten is not using a conventional time format, it is using the following format "yyyy-mm-dd-HH-MM-ss" in UTC time. I can't use this directly in moments or other library as seems. What is the recommendations to handle this specific format?

How can I use library such as "moment" to calculate the time differences with this time format from my data?

Does this answer your question? [Get hours difference between two dates in Moment Js](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25150570/get-hours-difference-between-two-dates-in-moment-js) — Zeeshan Hassan Memon, Feb 22 '20 at 06:30
I have a problem that the data I have gotten is a manual format. This format is not a conventional format. The format is "yyyy-mm-dd-HH-MM-ss" — Calvin, Feb 22 '20 at 06:41
alright, I have added answer and here is the node-cheat link: https://github.com/zishon89us/node-cheat/blob/master/day/duration.js#L9 — Zeeshan Hassan Memon, Feb 22 '20 at 08:30

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 22 '20 at 08:25

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Not sure but possibly try it with moment, something like:

const moment = require('moment');

const yourSpecialFormat = 'YYYY-MM-DD-HH-mm-ss';
const someDateInYourFormat = '2020-02-22-05-58-57';

let now = moment(moment().format(yourSpecialFormat), yourSpecialFormat);
let then = moment(someDateInYourFormat, yourSpecialFormat);

console.log('Hours   ----> ', moment.duration(now.diff(then)).asHours());
console.log('Minutes ----> ', moment.duration(now.diff(then)).asMinutes ());

answered Feb 22 '20 at 08:25

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Thanks, I have tried it and it is working! I am accepting this answer so others can try the same for any special format that they are using internally in their database. – Calvin Feb 23 '20 at 00:17
glad that it was useful for you! – Zeeshan Hassan Memon Feb 23 '20 at 08:01

Calculate time differences in nodejs from a manually created format

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