Convert the duration of two dates to minutes?

[Community Alums]

Does anyone have a business rule I can use as an example to convert the duration between 2 dates to minutes?

We currently have 2 date fields (dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm:ss)
u_outage_start
u_outage_end

Looking to get this converted to minutes in field u_reported_downtime_degradation

Thanks in advance!

[Community Alums]

Hi Arung,

After some testing its working out its actually calculating the seconds not minutes?

Any amendments I can make?

[Anurag Tripathi · Accepted solution]

Yes,

That is because you are setting the seconds variable and not mins, Use the below

(function executeRule(current, previous /*null when async*/) {
var dateString1 = new GlideDateTime(current.u_outage_start); 
var dateString2 = new GlideDateTime(current.u_outage_end); 
var diffSeconds = gs.dateDiff(dateString1, dateString2, true);
diffMins = diffSeconds/60;
	current.u_reported_downtime_degradation = diffMins ;

})(current, previous);

[Community Alums]

Of course! Can you tell its Friday? 🙂

[Anurag Tripathi]

haha. Cheers mate!!