30-seconds-of-code/snippets/minDate.md

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title	tags	expertise	cover	firstSeen	lastUpdated
Min date	date	intermediate	blog_images/interior-2.jpg	2018-09-29T13:38:20+03:00	2020-10-21T21:54:53+03:00

Returns the minimum of the given dates.

• Use the ES6 spread syntax with Math.min() to find the minimum date value.
• Use the Date constructor to convert it to a Date object.

const minDate = (...dates) => new Date(Math.min(...dates));

const dates = [
  new Date(2017, 4, 13),
  new Date(2018, 2, 12),
  new Date(2016, 0, 10),
  new Date(2016, 0, 9)
];
minDate(...dates); // 2016-01-08T22:00:00.000Z