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Eleventy-friendly "time ago" javascript snippet.
/**
* "Time Ago" vanilla javascript snippet
*
* Lovingly stolen from StackOverflow here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/37802747
*
* Convert elements like this:
* <time datetime="Thu May 12 2022 21:05:56 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)">May 12th, 2022</time>
*
* To This:
* <time datetime="Thu May 12 2022 21:05:56 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)">4 days ago</time>
*
**/
var TimeAgo = (function() {
var self = {};
// Public Methods
self.locales = {
prefix: '',
sufix: 'ago',
seconds: 'less than a minute',
minute: 'about a minute',
minutes: '%d minutes',
hour: 'about an hour',
hours: 'about %d hours',
day: 'a day',
days: '%d days',
month: 'about a month',
months: '%d months',
year: 'about a year',
years: '%d years'
};
self.inWords = function(timeAgo) {
var seconds = Math.floor((new Date() - parseInt(timeAgo)) / 1000),
separator = this.locales.separator || ' ',
words = this.locales.prefix + separator,
interval = 0,
intervals = {
year: seconds / 31536000,
month: seconds / 2592000,
day: seconds / 86400,
hour: seconds / 3600,
minute: seconds / 60
};
var distance = this.locales.seconds;
for (var key in intervals) {
interval = Math.floor(intervals[key]);
if (interval > 1) {
distance = this.locales[key + 's'];
break;
} else if (interval === 1) {
distance = this.locales[key];
break;
}
}
distance = distance.replace(/%d/i, interval);
words += distance + separator + this.locales.sufix;
return words.trim();
};
return self;
}());
window.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function (event) {
// Get all elements with the class "time-ago"
let timeAgoElements = document.getElementsByClassName('time-ago');
// Loop through each timeago element
for (let i = 0; i < timeAgoElements.length; i++) {
let timeAgoElement = timeAgoElements[i];
let time = new Date(timeAgoElement.getAttribute('datetime'));
timeAgoElement.innerText = TimeAgo.inWords(time.getTime());
}
});
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