I have 2 strings, that have the minute and hour that a function needs to occur at.

I want to check, if the minute and hour which are specified in string format, and from my database are within 5 minutes of the current time, call this function.

My original thought was something like:

(today.minute is the current minute)

today.minute:

minute = "55"
hour = "14"
var today = new Date();
var time = today.getMinutes(), today.getHours()

if (today.getMinutes() - 5 == minute) {
   myFunc()
}

But that isn't going to work, because I need the hour and minute - 5 minutes... how can I do this?

CodePudding user response：

Is this what you are looking for?

let minute = "55"
let hour = "14"
let today = new Date();
//var time = today.getMinutes(), today.getHours()

if (Math.abs(today.getMinutes() - Number(minute)) <= 5) {
   myFunc()
}

function myFunc() {
  console.log('myFunc called', today.getMinutes());
 }

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