JavaScript: Add minutes to a Date object

Last update on August 19 2022 21:50:50 (UTC/GMT +8 hours)

JavaScript Datetime: Exercise-6 with Solution

Write a JavaScript function to add specified minutes to a Date object.

Test Data:
console.log(add_minutes(new Date(2014,10,2), 30).toString());
Output :
"Sun Nov 02 2014 00:30:00 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time)"

Sample Solution:-

HTML Code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Add minutes to a date object.</title>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>

JavaScript Code:

var add_minutes =  function (dt, minutes) {
    return new Date(dt.getTime() + minutes*60000);
}
console.log(add_minutes(new Date(2014,10,2), 30).toString());

Sample Output:

Sun Nov 02 2014 00:30:00 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time)

Flowchart:

Live Demo:

See the Pen JavaScript - Add minutes to a Date object-date-ex- 6 by w3resource (@w3resource) on CodePen.

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