short-date-diff

This package returns short human-friendly format for date time diff like 5s or 17m or 33h.

You can use this package to indicate how much time ago something happened.

Install

npm i --save short-date-diff
# or
yarn add short-date-diff

Usage

const shortDateDiff = require('short-date-diff')

// assume today is 2020-01-09
const date = new Date('2020-01-01')
shortDateDiff(date); // returns '8d'

const shortDateDiff = require('short-date-diff')

const date1 = new Date('2020-01-01')
const date2 = new Date('2020-01-09')
shortDateDiff(date1, date2); // returns '8d'

How it works

Date diff	Suffix	Example
0s - 59s	s	5s
1m - 59m	m	17m
1h - 48h	h	33h
2d - 100d	d	8d
3m - 12m	m	5m
1y	y	1y

Motivation

This package was created to shortly indicate how much time ago message was sent. Space for date information is limited and it's not possible to show full date diff message. So I decided to show short date diff instead.