I have the following code to get (timestamp) and (NOW timestamp). I subtract them to get the difference between them but I get a number like 123456 and I can not understand how much this number represent. I want to check if the difference between those two dates are less than one hour, how?

final_time = new Date(2013, 11, 11, 11, 11);
c_date = new Date();
offset_time = c_date.getTimezoneOffset();
var n1 = Math.abs(offset_time);
current_date = new Date(c_date.getTime() - n1 * 60 * 1000);

alert(current_date-final_time);

I have the following code to get (timestamp) and (NOW timestamp). I subtract them to get the difference between them but I get a number like 123456 and I can not understand how much this number represent. I want to check if the difference between those two dates are less than one hour, how?

final_time = new Date(2013, 11, 11, 11, 11);
c_date = new Date();
offset_time = c_date.getTimezoneOffset();
var n1 = Math.abs(offset_time);
current_date = new Date(c_date.getTime() - n1 * 60 * 1000);

alert(current_date-final_time);

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• running your code gives ...2598440754 milis is 721 hours. (if swapping over the subtration at the end to give a positive number, c_date.getTime() - final_time.getTime()). Just take that and work out if that is greater than '60 * 60 * 1000'. Just see 'codebox's answer below, its more eloquent than my ment. – jeff porter Commented Nov 11, 2013 at 10:16

2 Answers 2

You can get the difference between the two dates in milliseconds if you do:

var diffInMillis = c_date.getTime() - final_time.getTime()

To find out if this is less than 1 hour you can do this:

var isLessThan1Hour = diffInMillis < 60 * 60 * 1000;

Instead of directly subtracting the timestamps try to diff the dates from which you can individually get hours.From then on one can do a simple maths to do the difference.

That's a more clear and maintainable approach