Compare time stamps in Cypress

May 9, 2023

I want to check if part of the content of the input box contains the current YYMMDD HH. I don’t want to check MM and SS because this will be inaccurate taking into consideration the time passed to do the comparison. So, I did

  const dayjs = require('dayjs')
  companionPage.countNameInputBox().invoke('val').then((text) => {
   expect(text.trim()).to.have.text(dayjs().format('YYMMDD HH'))
  })

But I got:

How can I remove the comparison for MM and SS? and solve the above error?

>Solution :

As you will have always a fixed number (9) of characters in 230509 17, you can use .slice(0,9):

const dayjs = require('dayjs')
companionPage.countNameInputBox().invoke('val').then((text) => {
   expect(text.trim().slice(0,9)).to.have.text(dayjs().format('YYMMDD HH'))
})