How can I check if two dates are equal?

Question

I have this code using javascript :

var event = new Date('August 19, 1975 23:15:30');
var event1 = new Date('March 25, 1956 15:50:14');

And I would like to know how can I check if the value of event1 is equal to event?

Is there a way I can do this?

Thank you!

Possible duplicate of [Checking if two Dates have the same date info](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4428327/checking-if-two-dates-have-the-same-date-info) — leopal, Nov 07 '19 at 15:13
`.getTime()` will give you milliseconds since 1970 1st January, can you test equate using that ? — Om Sao, Nov 07 '19 at 15:14

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 07 '19 at 15:49

var event = new Date('August 19, 1975 23:15:30');
var event1 = new Date('August 25, 1956 15:50:14');
var result = CompareDates(event , event1);
console.log(result);

function CompareDates(date1, date2){
  if((date1.getDay() === date2.getDay()) && (date1.getMonth() === date2.getMonth()) && (date1.getYear() === date2.getYear())){
    return "Dates are equal.";
  }
 return "Dates are different.";
}

You can use above simple logic for date comparison.

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 07 '19 at 15:14

1

compare the timestamps of the dates:

if(event.getTime() === event1.getTime()){
...
}

answered Nov 07 '19 at 15:14

CodingKiwi

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