Get a Readable, formatted and customized timestamp

If you want to quickly set up a customized timestamp format, this might be the easiest way.

Install

$ npm install readable-timestamp-js

Usage

ES6(preferred)

import { timeDifferenceForDate, readableTimestamp } from "readable-timestamp-js";

or

const { timeDifferenceForDate, readableTimestamp } = require("readable-timestamp-js")

function timeDifferenceForDate()

timeDifferenceForDate accept 1 parameter, help users to calculate the difference between previous time and current time and return a human readable string.

const date = new Date();
console.log(timeDifferenceForDate(date))

//=> Just now

const previous = "Sun Jul 03 2022 00:37:36 GMT+0000"
console.log(timeDifferenceForDate(previous))

//=> 2 months ago

Readable patterns

• Just now
• Less than 1 min ago
• 1 min ago | mins ago
• 1 hour ago | hours ago
• 1 day ago | days ago
• 1 month ago | months ago
• 1 year ago | years ago

function readableTimestamp()

readableTimestamp can accept 3 parameter and return a string to help users creating various date formats easily.

####1. The first parameter is the timestamp.

const date = new Date()
readableTimestamp(date)

//=> 02-07-2022 at 20:37

####2. The second parameter is a string to describe your format.

const date = new Date()
readableTimestamp(date, "at h:m")
//=> at 20:37
readableTimestamp(date, "h:m, M/D/Y")
//=> 20:37, 07/02/2022
readableTimestamp(date, "D/M, h:m ")
//=> 02/07, 20:37

Patterns roles

1. upperCase

• Y : return year
• M : return month
• D : return day

2. lowerCase

• h : return hour
• m : return minute ** case sensitive!!**

3. others It will return all the rests of your string including spaces and special characters.

4. Remeber the basic role, and you can write your pattern in any combination!

####3. The third parameter is a string to change your month to English.

const date = new Date()
readableTimestamp(date, "D M, Y at h:m", "month")
//=> 02 Jul, 2022 at 20:37

Author

Yik