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Relative time ago with native Intl.RelativeTimeFormat in JS
/**
* From: https://blog.webdevsimplified.com/2020-07/relative-time-format/
*/
const formatter = new Intl.RelativeTimeFormat(undefined, {
numeric: 'auto'
})
const DIVISIONS = [
{ amount: 60, name: 'seconds' },
{ amount: 60, name: 'minutes' },
{ amount: 24, name: 'hours' },
{ amount: 7, name: 'days' },
{ amount: 4.34524, name: 'weeks' },
{ amount: 12, name: 'months' },
{ amount: Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY, name: 'years' }
]
function formatTimeAgo(date) {
let duration = (date - new Date()) / 1000
for (let i = 0; i <= DIVISIONS.length; i++) {
const division = DIVISIONS[i]
if (Math.abs(duration) < division.amount) {
return formatter.format(Math.round(duration), division.name)
}
duration /= division.amount
}
}
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