How to Add Minutes to Date in JavaScript

In today’s post, we’ll learn to modify the date object and add minutes to the date object in JavaScript.

Add Minutes to Date in JavaScript

JavaScript date objects constitute a single factor in time in a platform-independent format. Date object incorporates a number representing milliseconds since January 1, 1970, UTC.

When a new Date() is called, it returns a new Date object, and when Date() is called, it returns a string representation of the current date and time.

JavaScript provides various static methods like Date.now(), Date.parse() and Date.UTC(). Some of the instance methods used to alter or access the Date object are Date.prototype.getMinutes(), Date.prototype.getSeconds(), Date.prototype.setDay(), Date.prototype.getMilliseconds(), etc.

Find more information in the documentation for Date.

The input date needs to be converted to the Date objects to add the dynamic minutes to the existing Date object. Let’s understand it with the following example.

const date = new Date('04/13/2022');
console.log(
    new Date(new Date(date).setMinutes(date.getMinutes() + 10)).toString());

The example above has defined the date variable containing the Date object. To set the minutes, call the new constructor with the input date object and call the setMinutes method to set the minutes to the date.

The getMinutes() method returns an integer between 0 and 59, representing the minutes of the specified date based on local time. The setMinutes() sets the minutes for a given date based on local time.

You can specify seconds and milliseconds as an argument to the setMinutes() method.

secondsValue and msValue parameters are optional parameters. If you do not specify these parameters, values returned from getSeconds() and getMilliseconds() methods are used.

Several milliseconds are returned between January 1, 1970 00:00:00 UTC and the updated date. The .toString() method gets the date in string format.

Attempt to run the above code snippet in any browser that supports JavaScript; it will display this result.

"Wed Apr 13 2022 00:10:00 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time)"

Demo