Skip to content

Add Relative Time Formatter Utility Function #6

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Merged
merged 1 commit into from
Dec 29, 2024
Merged

Add Relative Time Formatter Utility Function #6

Changes from all commits
Commits
Show all changes
1 commit
Select commit
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension
Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
35 changes: 35 additions & 0 deletions public/data/javascript.json
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -114,6 +114,41 @@
],
"tags": ["javascript", "date", "time-difference", "utility"],
"author": "technoph1le"
},
{
"title": "Relative Time Formatter",
"description": "Displays how long ago a date occurred or how far in the future a date is.",
"code": [
"const getRelativeTime = (date) => {",
" const now = Date.now();",
" const diff = date.getTime() - now;",
" const seconds = Math.abs(Math.floor(diff / 1000));",
" const minutes = Math.abs(Math.floor(seconds / 60));",
" const hours = Math.abs(Math.floor(minutes / 60));",
" const days = Math.abs(Math.floor(hours / 24));",
" const years = Math.abs(Math.floor(days / 365));",
"",
" if (Math.abs(diff) < 1000) return 'just now';",
"",
" const isFuture = diff > 0;",
"",
" if (years > 0) return `${isFuture ? 'in ' : ''}${years} ${years === 1 ? 'year' : 'years'}${isFuture ? '' : ' ago'}`;",
" if (days > 0) return `${isFuture ? 'in ' : ''}${days} ${days === 1 ? 'day' : 'days'}${isFuture ? '' : ' ago'}`;",
" if (hours > 0) return `${isFuture ? 'in ' : ''}${hours} ${hours === 1 ? 'hour' : 'hours'}${isFuture ? '' : ' ago'}`;",
" if (minutes > 0) return `${isFuture ? 'in ' : ''}${minutes} ${minutes === 1 ? 'minute' : 'minutes'}${isFuture ? '' : ' ago'}`;",
"",
" return `${isFuture ? 'in ' : ''}${seconds} ${seconds === 1 ? 'second' : 'seconds'}${isFuture ? '' : ' ago'}`;",
"}",
"",
"// usage",
"const pastDate = new Date('2021-12-29 13:00:00');",
"const futureDate = new Date('2026-12-29 13:00:00');",
"console.log(timeAgoOrAhead(pastDate)); // x years ago",
"console.log(timeAgoOrAhead(new Date())); // just now",
"console.log(timeAgoOrAhead(futureDate)); // in x years"
],
"tags": ["javascript", "date", "time", "relative", "future", "past", "utility"],
"author": "Yugveer06"
}
]
},
Expand Down