How to get time difference between two timestamps in seconds with jQuery?
javascript, jquery, seconds, time, timeago
Solution
assuming you parse the string into JavaScript date object, you can do (date2 - date1)/1000
to parse mysql format timestamp, just feed the string into new Date():
var d2 = new Date('2038-01-19 03:14:07');
var d1 = new Date('2038-01-19 03:10:07');
var seconds = (d2- d1)/1000;
fix of edit 2 in the question:
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function(){
var d2 = new Date();
var d1 = new Date("2014-02-02 23:54:04");
$("a#timedif").html("Diff. Seconds : "+((d2-d1)/1000).toString());
});
Problem
I want to display `x seconds ago` based on a MySQL Timestamp. I found the plugin called timeago But I cannot find a way to make it display only seconds. I'm OK with 61 seconds, or 300 seconds. Any way to convert the output to seconds with timeago, or with pure jQuery / JavaScript ? Thanks for any help ! Edit: Sample Case : ``` $time1 = "2014-02-02 23:54:04"; // plus PHP ways to format it. //$time2 = NOW() , or date(); whatever. ``` I just want to get how many seconds since `$time1`. Edit 2: Working code : ``` <script type="text/javascript"> $(function(){ var d2 = new Date(); var d1 = new Date("2014-02-02 23:54:04"); $("a#timedif").html("Diff. Seconds : "+((d2-d1)/100).toString()); // note that you may want to round the value }); </script> ``` It outputs `Diff. Seconds : NaN`