How to get start and end of day in Javascript?

With dayjs library, use startOf and endOf methods as follows:

Local GMT:

const start = dayjs().startOf('day'); // set to 12:00 am today
const end = dayjs().endOf('day'); // set to 23:59 pm today

For UTC:

const utc = require('dayjs/plugin/utc');
dayjs.extend(utc);

const start = dayjs.utc().startOf('day'); 
const end = dayjs.utc().endOf('day'); 

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Using the (deprecated) momentjs library, this can be achieved with the startOf() and endOf() methods on the moment's current date object, passing the string 'day' as arguments:

Local GMT:

var start = moment().startOf('day'); // set to 12:00 am today
var end = moment().endOf('day'); // set to 23:59 pm today

For UTC:

var start = moment.utc().startOf('day'); 
var end = moment.utc().endOf('day'); 

FYI (merged version of Tvanfosson)

it will return actual date => date when you are calling function

export const today = {
  iso: {
    start: () => new Date(new Date().setHours(0, 0, 0, 0)).toISOString(),
    now: () => new Date().toISOString(),
    end: () => new Date(new Date().setHours(23, 59, 59, 999)).toISOString()
  },
  local: {
  start: () => new Date(new Date(new Date().setHours(0, 0, 0, 0)).toString().split('GMT')[0] + ' UTC').toISOString(),
  now: () => new Date(new Date().toString().split('GMT')[0] + ' UTC').toISOString(),
  end: () => new Date(new Date(new Date().setHours(23, 59, 59, 999)).toString().split('GMT')[0] + ' UTC').toISOString()
  }
}

// how to use

today.local.now(); //"2018-09-07T01:48:48.000Z" BAKU +04:00
today.iso.now(); // "2018-09-06T21:49:00.304Z" * 

* it is applicable for Instant time type on Java8 which convert your local time automatically depending on your region.(if you are planning write global app)

Using the luxon.js library, same can be achieved using startOf and endOf methods by passing the 'day' as parameter

var DateTime = luxon.DateTime;
DateTime.local().startOf('day').toUTC().toISO(); //2017-11-16T18:30:00.000Z
DateTime.local().endOf('day').toUTC().toISO(); //2017-11-17T18:29:59.999Z
DateTime.fromISO(new Date().toISOString()).startOf('day').toUTC().toISO(); //2017-11-16T18:30:00.000Z

remove .toUTC() if you need only the local time

and you may ask why not moment.js, answer is here for that.

var start = new Date();
start.setUTCHours(0,0,0,0);

var end = new Date();
end.setUTCHours(23,59,59,999);

alert( start.toUTCString() + ':' + end.toUTCString() );

If you need to get the UTC time from those, you can use UTC().