diff --git a/chapters/dates_and_times/days-between-two-dates.md b/chapters/dates_and_times/days-between-two-dates.md index 11f6894..b6a94e9 100644 --- a/chapters/dates_and_times/days-between-two-dates.md +++ b/chapters/dates_and_times/days-between-two-dates.md @@ -5,11 +5,11 @@ chapter: Dates and Times --- ## Problem -You need to find how much seconds minutes, hours, days, months or years has passed between two dates. +You need to find how many seconds, minutes, hours, days, months or years have passed between two dates. ## Solution -Use JavaScript's Date function getTime(). Which provides how much time in milliseconds has passed since 01/01/1970: +Use JavaScript's Date function getTime(). Which provides how much time in milliseconds have passed since 01/01/1970: {% highlight coffeescript %} DAY = 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24 @@ -22,12 +22,10 @@ days_passed = Math.round((d2.getTime() - d1.getTime()) / DAY) ## Discussion -Using milliseconds makes the life easier to avoid overflow mistakes with Dates. So we first calculate how much milliseconds has a day. -Then, given two distinct dates, just get the difference in milliseconds between two dates and then divide by how much milliseconds has a -day. It will get you the days between two distinct dates. +Using milliseconds makes the life easier to avoid overflow mistakes with Dates. So we first calculate how many milliseconds are in a day. +Then, given two distinct dates, get the difference in milliseconds between two dates and then divide by how many milliseconds are in a day. It will return the days between two distinct dates. -If you'd like to calculate the hours between two date objects, you can do that just by dividing the difference in milliseconds by the -conversion of milliseconds to hours. The same goes for minutes and seconds. +If you'd like to calculate the hours between two date objects, you can do that by dividing the difference in milliseconds by the conversion of milliseconds to hours. The same goes for minutes and seconds. {% highlight coffeescript %} HOUR = 1000 * 60 * 60