Date Difference between Multiple DatePickers

[Cyndie]

I have two DatePickers; one for a start date and one for an end date.  What would be the best way to calculate the number of days between them? 

[Alexander Valchev]

Hi Cyndie,

KendoUI does not have a build-in method for calculating difference between two dates. It is possible to retrieve the selected dates by the value method of the DatePicker and do the calculations via JavaScript. For example:

var startDate = $("#startDate").data("kendoDatePicker").value();
var endDate = $("#endDate").data("kendoDatePicker").value();

var diff = Math.round((endDate - startDate)/1000/60/60/24); //Difference in days

In the attachments you can find a sample page where you could see this approach in action.


Greetings,
Alexander Valchev
the Telerik team

[Mosh]

that does not work will when daylight savings time come into play

[Boyan Dimitrov]

Hello Mosh,

I guess same result will happen if we calculate the difference between two simple JavaScript Date objects. What the value method of the DatePicker does is simply to return a JavaScript Date object. 

Regards,
Boyan Dimitrov
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