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
dobvariable, into an array using the "/" character as the delimiter.Line 3: Creates a JavaScript
Dateobject using the values ...