I have the time in milliseconds and I want it to become "30 minutes" or "3 days, 1 hour". Enter Humanize Duration!
This library is in maintenance mode. New languages and bug fixes will be added but no new features will be. If you're interested in helping out by taking over the project, please see this GitHub issue.
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) // '12 seconds'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(2250) // '2.25 seconds'
humanizeDuration(97320000) // '1 day, 3 hours, 2 minutes'You can change the settings by passing options as the second argument:
language
Language for unit display (accepts an ISO 639-1 code from one of the supported languages).
humanizeDuration(3000, { language: 'es' }) // '3 segundos'
humanizeDuration(5000, { language: 'ko' }) // '5 초'delimiter
String to display between the previous unit and the next value.
humanizeDuration(22140000, { delimiter: ' and ' }) // '6 hours and 9 minutes'
humanizeDuration(22140000, { delimiter: '--' }) // '6 hours--9 minutes'spacer
String to display between each value and unit.
humanizeDuration(260040000, { spacer: ' whole ' }) // '3 whole days, 14 whole minutes'
humanizeDuration(260040000, { spacer: '' }) // '3days, 14minutes'largest
Number representing the maximum number of units to display for the duration.
humanizeDuration(1000000000000) // '31 years, 8 months, 1 week, 19 hours, 46 minutes, 40 seconds'
humanizeDuration(1000000000000, { largest: 2 }) // '31 years, 8 month'units
Array of strings to define which units are used to display the duration (if needed). Can be one, or a combination of any, of the following: ['y', 'mo', 'w', 'd', 'h', 'm', 's', 'ms']
humanizeDuration(3600000, { units: ['h'] }) // '1 hour'
humanizeDuration(3600000, { units: ['m'] }) // '60 minutes'
humanizeDuration(3600000, { units: ['d', 'h'] }) // '1 hour'round
Boolean value. Use true to round the smallest unit displayed (can be combined with largest and units).
humanizeDuration(1200) // '1.2 seconds'
humanizeDuration(1200, { round: true }) // '1 second'
humanizeDuration(1600, { round: true }) // '2 seconds'decimal
String to substitute for the decimal point in a decimal fraction.
humanizeDuration(1200) // '1.2 seconds'
humanizeDuration(1200, { decimal: ' point ' }) // '1 point 2 seconds'conjunction
String to include before the final unit. You can also set serialComma to false to eliminate the final comma.
humanizeDuration(22140000, { conjunction: ' and ' }) // '6 hours and 9 minutes'
humanizeDuration(22141000, { conjunction: ' and ' }) // '6 hours, 9 minutes, and 1 second'
humanizeDuration(22140000, { conjunction: ' and ', serialComma: false }) // '6 hours and 9 minutes'
humanizeDuration(22141000, { conjunction: ' and ', serialComma: false }) // '6 hours, 9 minutes and 1 second'unitMeasures
Customize the value used to calculate each unit of time.
humanizeDuration(400) // '0.4 seconds'
humanizeDuration(400, { // '1 year, 1 month, 5 days'
unitMeasures: {
y: 365,
mo: 30,
w: 7,
d: 1
}
})Combined example
humanizeDuration(3602000, {
language: 'es',
round: true,
spacer: ' glorioso ',
units: ['m']
}) // '60 glorioso 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 |
| Bulgarian | bg |
| Catalan | ca |
| Chinese, simplified | zh_CN |
| Chinese, traditional | zh_TW |
| Czech | cs |
| Danish | da |
| Dutch | nl |
| English | en |
| Farsi/Persian | fa |
| Finnish | fi |
| French | fr |
| German | de |
| Greek | gr |
| Hungarian | hu |
| Icelandic | is |
| Indonesian | id |
| Italian | it |
| Japanese | ja |
| Korean | ko |
| Lithuanian | lt |
| Malay | ms |
| Norwegian | no |
| Polish | pl |
| Portuguese | pt |
| Russian | ru |
| Slovak | sk |
| 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', 'bg', 'ca', 'cs', 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
- Leonard Lee for Indonesian & Malay support
- Jesse Jackson for documentation help
- Óli Tómas Freysson for Icelandic support
- Saeed Ganji for Farsi/Persian support
- Caner Elci for Bulgarian support
- Matej Kolesár for Slovak support
Licensed under the permissive Unlicense. Enjoy!
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