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calculate # of ms/seconds/minutes/hours/days in the past
function(
a, // a Date object
b, // placeholder
c // placeholder
){
for ( // whittle the date down to biggest unit
b = [ // an array containing the
1e3, // ms in a second,
60, // seconds in a minute,
60, // minutes in an hour, and
24 // hours in a day.
],
a = new Date - a, // get ms since date passed.
c = 0; // initialize the cursor.
a > 2 * b[c]; // while the 2 x time left exceeds the current unit,
a /= b[c++] // divide the time by the unit and increment.
); // (note: the 2* above ensures the units are plural!)
return ~~a + // the rounded remaining unit +
" " + // a space + the unit name, which we get by
"m0second0minute0hour0day" // taking a 0-delimited string of names
.split(0) // splitting it by 0, and
[c] + // taking the final cursor, +
"s ago" // the plural and "ago"
}
function(a,b,c){for(b=[1e3,60,60,24],a=new Date-a,c=0;a>2*b[c];a/=b[c++]);return~~a+" "+"m0second0minute0hour0day".split(0)[c]+"s ago"}
DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 2, December 2004
Copyright (C) 2011 Jed Schmidt <http://jed.is>
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified
copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long
as the name is changed.
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TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
0. You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO.
{
"name": "timeAgo",
"keywords": ["time", "chronological", "ago"]
}
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awesome! this is probably one of my favorite 140bytes.

@zoloadang
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well done!

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adjenks commented Aug 22, 2019

How about Years?
Aeons? Ha...

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