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Solution: It’s About Time

Explore how to use JavaScript to prompt for a birthdate, process the input into a Date object, and calculate the total seconds someone has been alive. This lesson guides you through handling date strings, creating date objects, and performing time calculations to build practical skills in working with dates and times.

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Solution

Here is a possible solution for telling the user how many seconds they have been alive for.

Explanation

  • Line 1: Displays a prompt dialog to the user, asking them to enter their date of birth in the "dd/mm/yyyy" format, which is then stored in constant variable dob.

  • Line 2: Splits the user's input, which is stored in the dob variable, into an array using the "/" character as the delimiter.

  • Line 3: Creates a JavaScript Date object using the values ...