How to add days to a date in Angular2? [duplicate]

Question

I simply want to create a date that is 3 days from now for use in a typescript angular component.

I have looked at Angular2 moment but this seems only to relate to pipes. Although I did see this article about using pipes in code, looks a bit hacky...

Maybe I'm missing something as this should be really simple?!

Thanks

Tachycardia

Dates are outside of the concern of Angular or even TypeScript. You can use the built in javascript Date object or use moment.js directly. – Storey

Is this only for display or do you want to do something else with the later date? – Anglican

Thanks - yes msanford I want to use it not just for display. OK seems I'm barking up the wrong tree and I need to just use the JavaScript Date. – Tachycardia

... I need to just use the JavaScript Date <= I prefer moment.js, it's more flexible in many situations and widely supported in many other apis. This is just personal preference though. – Storey

Cool - yes I have used moment in the distant past - seems to be the defacto library for this kind of requirement. – Tachycardia

new Date((new Date()).getTime() + (60*60*24*1000*numberOfDays)) – Emmyemmye

Answer 1

date: Date;

ngOnInit() {
  this.date = new Date();
  this.date.setDate( this.date.getDate() + 3 );
}

Then you can use the date pipe to display the date nicely in your HTML

{{ date | date }}

Which renders thusly:

Sep 25, 2017

Regardless

But this is not working with daylight saving time countries. How to get correct dates in other countries? – Hazardous

This does not work when date is before current date, i.e., some months earlier. Can you suggest another way? – Osteoplastic