Comparing for equality on Date objects

[Hector.Tafoya]

Hello, i have a simple problem, and question:

¿How do you ask if two Date objects are the same?

I am writing simple code that compares two dates created exactly the same:

However after performing a simple assertion {throw exception if (!=) } they fail and return me this message:

assert(new Date('3/12/2012 13:05:01 GMT-0600'), new Date('3/12/2012 13:05:01 GMT-0600') , 'CALENDAR property');

AssertException: CALENDAR property: 'Mon Mar 12 2012 13:05:01 GMT-0600 (CST)' != 'Mon Mar 12 2012 13:05:01 GMT-0600 (CST)'

Thanks in advance

[mitchellsimoens]

This returns true:

new Date('3/12/2012 13:05:01 GMT-0600') !== new Date('3/12/2012 13:05:01 GMT-0600')

This returns false:

new Date('3/12/2012 13:05:01 GMT-0600') === new Date('3/12/2012 13:05:01 GMT-0600')

This is because it is checking to see if it is the same Object not same value.

So you can format the date objects to unix timestamp ('U') and compare that.

[Hector.Tafoya]

Thank you, that worked really well.

I really don't see much use of comparing dates by reference.

[tocasu]

try to change any element of date:


new Date('3/12/2012 14:05:01 GMT-0600') !== new Date('3/12/2012 13:05:01 GMT-0600')

result is still TRUE