How to add minutes using javascript

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I want to add 5 minutes to current time using javascript.

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var minutesforExpiry = parseInt("30") - parseInt("25");
var timetoExpire = new Date();
var minutestoExpire = parseInt(timetoExpire.getMinutes()) + minutesforExpiry;

But If minutes is 56 at that time I am getting 61 which is not correct.

Posted 21-Mar-12 8:35am

Rachana Patel

Updated 14-Nov-18 7:13am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 21-Mar-12 14:55pm

I voted 4 for correctly posed question (this happens so rarely, unfortunately!). Not 5 because you could easily find out the way using those short documentation pages (referenced in my answer, please see).
--SA

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-21T08:54:00

You pointed out this problem correctly. I was amazed how many incorrect "solutions" people offer, ignoring this "overflow" problem you noticed!

One of the right ways is converting time into milliseconds and adding required duration in milliseconds:

JavaScript

momentOfTime = new Date(); // just for example, can be any other time
myTimeSpan = 5*60*1000; // 5 minutes in milliseconds
momentOfTime.setTime(momentOfTime.getTime() + myTimeSpan);

Please see:
http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_obj_date.asp[^],
http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_gettime.asp[^].

—SA

Martin Arapovic · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-21T08:56:00

Solution 2

Hi,

Check this[^]...

Posted 21-Mar-12 8:56am

Martin Arapovic