How to determine if a date is today in JavaScript
Discover how to find out if a Date object represents a today datetime
How can you determine if a JavaScript Date object instance is a representation of a date/time that is “today”?
Given a Date instance, we can use the getDate(), getMonth() and getFullYear() methods, which return the day, month and year of a date, and compare them to today, which can be retrieved using new Date().
Here’s a small function that does exactly that, returning true if the argument is today.
const isToday = (someDate) => {
const today = new Date()
return someDate.getDate() == today.getDate() &&
someDate.getMonth() == today.getMonth() &&
someDate.getFullYear() == today.getFullYear()
}You can use it like this:
const today = isToday(myDate)Check out the JavaScript Date guide to find out more how to handle the Date object, if you need.
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