Get the day number from moment object javascript

I have a moment data object, what i want to do is get the date number, like if 2018-12-31 is given, it should return 365.

What I've currently done is this, but I feel like this is a more brute force approach since I have to run this function over and over again. Is there a more elegant way of doing this through the momentjs library?

var day = 25;
var mon = 12;
var year = 2018;
var sum = 0;
var days = 0;
var month_day = [31,28,31,30,31,30,31,31,30,31,30,31];
for ( var i = 0; i < mon; i++)
sum += month_day[i];


days = sum - (month_day[mon-1] - day);
console.log(days)


3 Answers
3

You can use the dayOfYear() function:

dayOfYear()

const day = 25;
const month = 12 - 1; // months are 0-based when using the object constructor
const year = 2018;
const date = moment(day, month, year);

console.log(date.dayOfYear()); // 359

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You can do it without momentjs

let year = 2018;
let month = 12 - 1;
let day = 25;
let dayOfYear = (Date.UTC(year, month, day) - Date.UTC(year, 0, 1)) / 86400000 + 1;
console.log(dayOfYear);

The moment documentation is helpful: https://momentjs.com/docs/#/get-set/day-of-year/

moment

var day = 25;
var mon = 12;
var year = 2018;
console.log(moment().year(year).month(mon).date(day).dayOfYear());


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