How to calculate number of months between two dates using javascript

JavaScript
1

Hi Folks,
I want to calculate number of months between two dates using javascript, can any one help me out to do this, its urgent.

2

http://slingfive.com/pages/code/jsDate/jsDate.html

the datediff function.

3

Days Between Two Dates script - http://javascriptbank.com/javascript/run-script-days-between-two-dates-script.html

4 

var a = someDate;
var b = someOtherDate;

// Months between years.
var months = (b.getFullYear() - a.getFullYear()) * 12;

// Months between... months.
months += b.getMonth() - a.getMonth();

// Subtract one month if b's date is less that a's.
if (b.getDate() < a.getDate())
{
    months--;
}
5

You would need to tidy this up a little but theoretically all you need is:

var a = someDate;
var b = someOtherDate;

var c = Math.abs(a - b);
answer = c.getMonth();

6

i’ve had a little play and got this. It may need a little tweaking but seems to work.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
      "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
    <head>
        <title>Untitled Document</title>
        <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" />
        <style type="text/css"></style>
        <script type="text/javascript">
            function monthDiff(start, end) {
                var tempDate = new Date(start);
                var monthCount = 0;
                while((tempDate.getMonth()+''+tempDate.getFullYear()) != (end.getMonth()+''+end.getFullYear())) {
                    monthCount++;
                    tempDate.setMonth(tempDate.getMonth()+1);
                }
                return monthCount+1;
            }
            window.onload = function() {
                alert(monthDiff(new Date(2007, 0, 1), new Date()));
            }
        </script>
    </head>
    <body>
        
        

    </body>
</html>
7

I cannot see how that could work even with a bit of tidying.
For a start, getMonth() cannot return a number greater than 11, whereas there can by more than 11 months between two dates.

8

September 15 is not a full month from October 12, though the getMonth() difference is 1.

Date.monthsDiff= function(day1,day2){
	var d1= day1,d2= day2;
	if(day1<day2){
		d1= day2;
		d2= day1;
	}
	var m= (d1.getFullYear()-d2.getFullYear())*12+(d1.getMonth()-d2.getMonth());
	if(d1.getDate()<d2.getDate()) --m;
	return m;
}

//test case
var d1= new Date(2007,9,12);
var d2= new Date(2006,8,13);

alert(Date.monthsDiff(d1,d2));