// Adapted from: https://github.com/sebastiansandqvist/s-ago (MIT) function format( diff: number, divisor: number, unit: string, past: string, future: string, isInTheFuture: boolean ) { var val = Math.floor(Math.abs(diff) / divisor); if (isInTheFuture) return val <= 1 ? future : 'in ' + val + ' ' + unit + 's'; return val <= 1 ? past : val + ' ' + unit + 's ago'; } const units = [ { max: 60000, value: 1000, name: 'second', past: 'a second ago', future: 'in a second' }, // max: 60 seconds { max: 3600000, value: 60000, name: 'minute', past: 'a minute ago', future: 'in a minute' }, // max: 60 minutes { max: 72000000, value: 3600000, name: 'hour', past: 'an hour ago', future: 'in an hour' }, // max: 20 hours { max: 518400000, value: 86400000, name: 'day', past: 'yesterday', future: 'tomorrow' }, // max: 6 days { max: 2419200000, value: 604800000, name: 'week', past: 'last week', future: 'in a week' }, // max: 28 days { max: 28512000000, value: 2592000000, name: 'month', past: 'last month', future: 'in a month' } // max: 11 months ]; export default function ago( date: Date, now: Date = new Date(), max?: 'second' | 'minute' | 'hour' | 'day' | 'week' | 'month' ): string { const diff = now.getTime() - date.getTime(); // less than a second if (Math.abs(diff) < 1000) return 'just now'; for (var i = 0; i < units.length; i++) { if (Math.abs(diff) < units[i].max || (max && units[i].name === max)) { return format(diff, units[i].value, units[i].name, units[i].past, units[i].future, diff < 0); } } return format(diff, 31536000000, 'year', 'last year', 'in a year', diff < 0); }