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User123123
User123123

Reputation: 573

Moment js getting time ago

I'm using moment to get time ago, but for things that happened 1 hour ago, it puts it like this: 'am hour ago', is it possible to get '1 hour ago'? Same thing for months, 'a month ago' => '1 month ago'

Upvotes: 0

Views: 4702

Answers (2)

GM Taium Ahmed
GM Taium Ahmed

Reputation: 107

{moment(new Date(your date).getTime()).fromNow()}

Upvotes: 0

Wasim Zarin
Wasim Zarin

Reputation: 176

You can configure moment to display relative times in any format you desire. For example:

moment.updateLocale('en', {
    relativeTime : {
        future: "in %s",
        past:   "%s ago",
        s  : 'a few seconds',
        ss : '%d seconds',
        m:  "a minute",
        mm: "%d minutes",
        h:  "1 hour ago", //this is the setting that you need to change
        hh: "%d hours",
        d:  "a day",
        dd: "%d days",
        w:  "a week",
        ww: "%d weeks",
        M:  "1 month ago", //change this for month
        MM: "%d months",
        y:  "a year",
        yy: "%d years"
    }
});

After this change has been made the moment library can be used as usual.

Following are some examples:

moment('2021-07-23 14:00:00').fromNow();

If you have the date coming in a different format than expected then you also need to provide the format in which you are getting it. Not doing so will return 'Invalid date'.

moment('21/07/2021',"DD/MM/YYYY").fromNow();

You can also specify multiple formats:

moment('21-07-2021', ['DD/MM/YYYY', 'YYYY/MM/DD']).fromNow();

You can always check whether you got a valid date or not. This helps put some checks in place or can be helpful when debugging code:

moment('abc', ['MM/DD/YYYY', 'YYYY/MM/DD']).isValid() //false

For more information see the docs here: https://momentjs.com/docs/#/customization/relative-time/

Upvotes: 3

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