JavaScript: Minimum date from an array of dates
JavaScript Datetime: Exercise-12 with Solution
Write a JavaScript function to get the minimum date from an array of dates.
Test Data:
console.log(min_date(['2015/02/01', '2015/02/02', '2015/01/03']));
Output :
"2015/01/03"
Sample Solution:-
HTML Code:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Minimum date from an array of dates</title>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
JavaScript Code:
function min_date(all_dates) {
var min_dt = all_dates[0],
min_dtObj = new Date(all_dates[0]);
all_dates.forEach(function(dt, index)
{
if ( new Date( dt ) < min_dtObj)
{
min_dt = dt;
min_dtObj = new Date(dt);
}
});
return min_dt;
}
console.log(min_date(['2015/02/01', '2015/02/02', '2015/01/03']));
Sample Output:
2015/01/03
Flowchart:

Live Demo:
See the Pen JavaScript - Minimum date from an array of dates-date-ex- 12 by w3resource (@w3resource) on CodePen.
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