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Find difference between 2 dates in JavaScript using format yyyy-mm-dd
function getNewDate(dateString){
var date = dateString ? new Date(dateString) : new Date(),
timezoneOffset = date.getTimezoneOffset();
return new Date( date.getTime() + timezoneOffset*60*1000*(dateString?1:0) );
}
var start_date = getNewDate('2013-12-01'),
end_date = getNewDate(),
one_day_in_milliseconds = 1000*60*60*24,
date_diff = Math.floor( ( end_date.getTime() - start_date.getTime() )/one_day_in_milliseconds ) ;
console.log("Date difference between ",end_date, " & ",start_date, " - ", date_diff);
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