How to check if current time falls within a specific range on a week day using jquery/javascript?

Question

When a user visits a page I need to check if the current time falls between 9:00 am and 5:30pm on a weekday and display something using jquery/javascript.But I am not sure how can check that.

Could someone please help?

Thanks

Solution 1

This should hopefully help:

function checkTime() {
    var d = new Date(); // current time
    var hours = d.getHours();
    var mins = d.getMinutes();
    var day = d.getDay();

    return day >= 1
        && day <= 5
        && hours >= 9 
        && (hours < 17 || hours === 17 && mins <= 30);
}

Solution 2

var now = new Date();
var dayOfWeek = now.getDay();
if(dayOfWeek > 0 && dayOfWeek < 6){
   //falls on a weekday
   if (now.getHours() > 9 && (now.getHours() < 17 && now.getMinutes() < 30)) {
      //it's in schedule
   }
}

Solution 3

Using the current time you could do something like this:

var now = new Date(),
    day = now.getDay(),
    hours = now.getHours();

//Check if day is Mon-Fri
if(0 < day < 6) {
  //check between 9am and 5pm
  if(9 <= hours <= 17) {
     if(hours !== 17 || now.getMinutes() <= 30) {
          //your jQuery code here
     }
  }
}

Solution 4

Just added two cents to the hour checking...

I personally think that a better way would be to check if is in the range of a:b--c:d...

// check if h:m is in the range of a:b-c:d
// does not support over-night checking like 23:00-1:00am
function checkTime (h,m,a,b,c,d){
      if (a > c || ((a == c) && (b > d))) {
          // not a valid input
      } else {
           if (h > a && h < c) {
                return true;
           } else if (h == a && m >= b) {
               return true;  
           } else if (h == c && m <= d) {
               return true;
           } else {
                return false;
           }
      }
}

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Comments

[StanleyZheng]

the express $.inArray(d.getDate()),[1..]) always evaluates to true because it returns -1 for Sat-Sun. Therefore it will not filter by week days. The edit fix will explicitly only pick days between 1-5 or Mon-Friday by getDay convention.