JavaScript: Maximum date from an array of dates
JavaScript Datetime: Exercise-11 with Solution
Write a JavaScript function to get the maximum date from an array of dates.
Test Data:
console.log(max_date(['2015/02/01', '2015/02/02', '2015/01/03']));
Output :
"2015/02/02"
Sample Solution:-
HTML Code:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Maximum date from an array of dates</title>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
JavaScript Code:
function max_date(all_dates) {
var max_dt = all_dates[0],
max_dtObj = new Date(all_dates[0]);
all_dates.forEach(function(dt, index)
{
if ( new Date( dt ) > max_dtObj)
{
max_dt = dt;
max_dtObj = new Date(dt);
}
});
return max_dt;
}
console.log(max_date(['2015/02/01', '2015/02/02', '2015/01/03']));
Sample Output:
2015/02/02
Flowchart:

Live Demo:
See the Pen JavaScript - Find out which day was in yesterday-date-ex- 10 by w3resource (@w3resource) on CodePen.
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