I have the time in milliseconds and I want it to become "30 minutes" or "3 days, 1 hour". Enter Humanize Duration!
This package is available as humanize-duration on npm and Bower. You can also include the JavaScript file in the browser.
In the browser:
<script src="humanize-duration.js"></script>
<script>
humanizeDuration(12000)
</script>In Node (or Browserify or Webpack or anywhere with CommonJS):
var humanizeDuration = require('humanize-duration')
humanizeDuration(12000)By default, Humanize Duration will humanize down to the second, and will return a decimal for the smallest unit. It will humanize in English by default.
humanizeDuration(3000) // '3 seconds'
humanizeDuration(2015) // '2.25 seconds'
humanizeDuration(97320000) // '1 day, 3 hours, 2 minutes'You can change the settings by passing options as the second argument:
humanizeDuration(3000, { language: 'es' }) // '3 segundos'
humanizeDuration(5000, { language: 'ko' }) // '5 초'
humanizeDuration(22140000, { delimiter: ' and ' }) // '6 hours and 9 minutes'
humanizeDuration(22140000, { delimiter: '--' }) // '6 hours--9 minutes'
humanizeDuration(260040000, { spacer: ' whole ' }) // '3 whole days, 14 whole minutes'
humanizeDuration(260040000, { spacer: '' }) // '3days, 14minutes'
humanizeDuration(1000000000000) // '31 years, 8 months, 1 week, 19 hours, 46 minutes, 40 seconds'
humanizeDuration(1000000000000, { largest: 2 }) // '31 years, 8 month'
humanizeDuration(3600000, { units: ['h'] }) // '1 hour'
humanizeDuration(3600000, { units: ['m'] }) // '60 minutes'
humanizeDuration(3600000, { units: ['d', 'h'] }) // '1 hour'
humanizeDuration(1200) // '1.2 seconds'
humanizeDuration(1200, { round: true }) // '1 second'
humanizeDuration(1600, { round: true }) // '2 seconds'
humanizeDuration(1200) // '1.2 seconds'
humanizeDuration(1200, { decimal: ' point ' }) // '1 point 2 seconds'
humanizeDuration(400) // '0.4 seconds'
humanizeDuration(400, { // '1 year, 1 month, 5 days'
unitMeasures: {
y: 365,
mo: 30,
w: 7,
d: 1
}
})
humanizeDuration(3600000, {
language: 'es',
units: ['m']
})
// '60 minutos'If you find yourself setting same options over and over again, you can create a humanizer that changes the defaults, which you can still override later.
var spanishHumanizer = humanizeDuration.humanizer({
language: 'es',
units: ['y', 'mo', 'd']
})
spanishHumanizer(71177400000) // '2 años, 3 meses, 2 días'
spanishHumanizer(71177400000, { units: ['d', 'h'] }) // '823 días, 19.5 horas'You can also add new languages to humanizers. For example:
var shortEnglishHumanizer = humanizeDuration.humanizer({
language: 'shortEn',
languages: {
shortEn: {
y: function() { return 'y' },
mo: function() { return 'mo' },
w: function() { return 'w' },
d: function() { return 'd' },
h: function() { return 'h' },
m: function() { return 'm' },
s: function() { return 's' },
ms: function() { return 'ms' },
}
}
})
shortEnglishHumanizer(15600000) // '4 h, 20 m'You can also add languages after initializing:
var humanizer = humanizeDuration.humanizer()
humanizer.languages.shortEn = {
y: function(c) { return c + 'y' },
// ...Internally, the main humanizeDuration function is just a wrapper around a humanizer.
Humanize Duration supports the following languages:
| Language | Code |
|---|---|
| Arabic | ar |
| Catalan | ca |
| Chinese, simplified | zh_CN |
| Chinese, traditional | zh_TW |
| Czech | cs |
| Danish | da |
| Dutch | nl |
| English | en |
| Finnish | fi |
| French | fr |
| German | de |
| Greek | gr |
| Hungarian | hu |
| Italian | it |
| Japanese | ja |
| Korean | ko |
| Lithuanian | lt |
| Norwegian | no |
| Polish | pl |
| Portuguese | pt |
| Russian | ru |
| Spanish | es |
| Swedish | sv |
| Turkish | tr |
| Ukrainian | uk |
| Vietnamese | vi |
For a list of supported languages, you can use the getSupportedLanguages function.
humanizeDuration.getSupportedLanguages()
// ['ar', 'ca', 'da', 'de' ...]This function won't return any new languages you define; it will only return the defaults supported by the library.
Lovingly made by Evan Hahn with help from:
- Martin Prins for language support
- Filipi Siqueira for Portuguese support
- Peter Rekdal Sunde for Norwegian support
- Michał Janiec for Polish support
- Eileen Li for Chinese support
- Tommy Brunn for Swedish support
- Giovanni Pellerano for Italian support
- Rahma Sghaier for Arabic support
- Evgenios Kastanias for Greek support
- Oleksii Mylotskyi for Ukrainian support
- Patrik Simek for Czech support
- Toni Helminen for Finnish support
- Vidmantas Drasutis for Lithuanian support
- Manh Tuan for Vietnamese support
Licensed under the permissive Unlicense. Enjoy!