How do I get the number of days between two Date objects?

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How do I get the number of days between two Date objects?

You can create two date objects, get the number of milliseconds that have passed since Jan 1, 1970 for each of them, make the difference and divide that back by the number of milliseconds per day (= 3600sec/hr * 24hrs * 1000ms)

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Author of answer: Joris Van den Bogaert

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