Full humanized durations in moment.js - momentjs

Question

I tried this in moment.js
moment.duration(375,'days').humanize()
and get "a year" as answer, but I would expect "a year and 10 days". Is there a way in moment.js to get the full humanized value?

Answer 1

Moment.js is providing the fromNow function to get time durations in human readable fromat, see http://momentjs.com/docs/#/displaying/fromnow/
Example:
moment([2007, 0, 29]).fromNow(); // 4 years ago
moment().subtract(375, 'days').fromNow(); // a year ago
You need to use third party lib as suggested by #Fluffy

Answer 2

I found this small lib, that only display duration (if you don't really need all the features of moment.js)
https://github.com/EvanHahn/HumanizeDuration.js

Answer 3

Try this plugin:
https://github.com/jsmreese/moment-duration-format
moment.duration(123, "minutes").format("h [hrs], m [min]");
// "2 hrs, 3 min"

Answer 4

I was looking at the same issue and seems like there is no plan on supporting this in the future...
Although one workaround proposed is to make an language definition that overrides default implementation of humanized messages:
https://github.com/timrwood/moment/issues/348
Kind of an overkill if you ask me...

Answer 5

Use moment.relativeTimeThreshold('y', 365) to set the rounding.
moment.relativeTimeThreshold('s', 60);
moment.relativeTimeThreshold('m', 60);
moment.relativeTimeThreshold('h', 24);
moment.relativeTimeThreshold('d', 31);
moment.relativeTimeThreshold('M', 12);
moment.relativeTimeThreshold('y', 365);

Answer 6

I made a function to solve this exact problem.
function formatDuration(period) {
let parts = [];
const duration = moment.duration(period);
// return nothing when the duration is falsy or not correctly parsed (P0D)
if(!duration || duration.toISOString() === "P0D") return;
if(duration.years() >= 1) {
const years = Math.floor(duration.years());
parts.push(years+" "+(years > 1 ? "years" : "year"));
}
if(duration.months() >= 1) {
const months = Math.floor(duration.months());
parts.push(months+" "+(months > 1 ? "months" : "month"));
}
if(duration.days() >= 1) {
const days = Math.floor(duration.days());
parts.push(days+" "+(days > 1 ? "days" : "day"));
}
if(duration.hours() >= 1) {
const hours = Math.floor(duration.hours());
parts.push(hours+" "+(hours > 1 ? "hours" : "hour"));
}
if(duration.minutes() >= 1) {
const minutes = Math.floor(duration.minutes());
parts.push(minutes+" "+(minutes > 1 ? "minutes" : "minute"));
}
if(duration.seconds() >= 1) {
const seconds = Math.floor(duration.seconds());
parts.push(seconds+" "+(seconds > 1 ? "seconds" : "second"));
}
return "in "+parts.join(", ");
}
This function takes a period string (ISO 8601), parses it with Moment (>2.3.0) and then, for every unit of time, pushes a string in the parts array. Then everything inside the parts array gets joined together with ", " as separation string.
You can test it here: https://jsfiddle.net/mvcha2xp/6/
I'm using it as a Vue filter to humanize durations correctly.

Answer 7

This issue on Github contains a lot of discussion about exactly that. Many are asking for a more precise humanized option.
Chime in with why you need it, use cases, etc.
https://github.com/moment/moment/issues/348

Answer 8

i have written this javascript code to humanize the duration,
function humanizeDuration(timeInMillisecond) {
var result = "";
if (timeInMillisecond) {
if ((result = Math.round(timeInMillisecond / (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24 * 30 * 12))) > 0) {//year
result = result === 1 ? result + " Year" : result + " Years";
} else if ((result = Math.round(timeInMillisecond / (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24 * 30))) > 0) {//months
result = result === 1 ? result + " Month" : result + " Months";
} else if ((result = Math.round(timeInMillisecond / (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24))) > 0) {//days
result = result === 1 ? result + " Day" : result + " Days";
} else if ((result = Math.round(timeInMillisecond / (1000 * 60 * 60))) > 0) {//Hours
result = result === 1 ? result + " Hours" : result + " Hours";
} else if ((result = Math.round(timeInMillisecond / (1000 * 60))) > 0) {//minute
result = result === 1 ? result + " Minute" : result + " Minutes";
} else if ((result = Math.round(timeInMillisecond / 1000)) > 0) {//second
result = result === 1 ? result + " Second" : result + " Seconds";
} else {
result = timeInMillisecond + " Millisec";
}
}
return result;
}

Answer 9

One of the solutions:
function getCountdown() {
// diff in seconds, comes through function's params
const diff = 60*60*24*4 + 60*60*22 + 60*35 + 5;
const MINUTE = 60;
const HOUR = MINUTE * 60;
const DAY = HOUR * 24;
const days = Math.floor(diff / DAY);
const hDiff = diff % DAY;
const hours = Math.floor(hDiff / HOUR);
const mDiff = hDiff % HOUR;
const minutes = Math.floor(mDiff / MINUTE);
const seconds = mDiff % MINUTE;
return [days, hours, minutes, seconds]
.map(v => (''+v)[1] ? ''+v : '0'+v)
}
output: ["04", "22", "35", "05"]
I needed it up to days only, but can be easily extended to weeks.
Doesn't make sense with months since diff says nothing about start date.
Having a period split to parts, adding "days"/"hours"/... is obvious.

Answer 10

Moment.js provides:
var y = moment.duration(375,'days').years(); // returns 1
var d = moment.duration(375,'days').days(); // returns 9
var data = y + 'y ' + d + 'd';
console.log(data);
This could be used with a bit of extra logic

Answer 11

This is my solution on CoffeeScript:
humanizeDuration = (eventDuration)->
eventMDuration = Moment.duration(eventDuration, 'seconds');
eventDurationString = ""
if (eventMDuration.days() > 0)
eventDurationString += " " + Moment.duration(eventMDuration.days(), 'days').humanize()
if (eventMDuration.hours() > 0)
eventDurationString += " " + Moment.duration(eventMDuration.hours(), 'hours').humanize()
if (eventMDuration.minutes() > 0)
eventDurationString += " " + Moment.duration(eventMDuration.minutes(), 'minutes').humanize()
eventDurationString.trim()

Answer 12

This is my solution, I like it better than the others here:
val moment1 = moment();
val moment2 = mement();
console.log(moment.duration(moment1.diff(moment2)).humanize());

Answer 13

Based on Ihor Kaslashnikov's solution, I modified the function to be even more accurate using vanilla Javascript.
function momentHumanize(eventDuration, unit) {
var eventMDuration = moment.duration(eventDuration, unit);
var eventDurationArray = [];
if (eventMDuration.years() > 0) {
eventDurationArray.push(eventMDuration.years() + ' years');
eventMDuration.subtract(eventMDuration.years(), 'years')
}
if (eventMDuration.months() > 0) {
eventDurationArray.push(eventMDuration.months() + ' months');
eventMDuration.subtract(eventMDuration.months(), 'months')
}
if (eventMDuration.weeks() > 0) {
eventDurationArray.push(eventMDuration.weeks() + ' weeks');
eventMDuration.subtract(eventMDuration.weeks(), 'weeks')
}
if (eventMDuration.days() > 0) {
eventDurationArray.push(eventMDuration.days() + ' days');
eventMDuration.subtract(eventMDuration.days(), 'days')
}
if (eventMDuration.hours() > 0) {
eventDurationArray.push(eventMDuration.hours() + ' hours');
eventMDuration.subtract(eventMDuration.hours(), 'hours')
}
if (eventMDuration.minutes() > 0) {
eventDurationArray.push(eventMDuration.minutes() + ' minutes');
}
return eventDurationArray.length === 1 ? eventDurationArray[0] :
eventDurationArray.join(' and ')
}
This will remove any amount from the moment instance once it humanizes it.
I did this because Ihor's solution was inaccurate, given that moment's humanize function rounds the value. For example, if I had 2.8 hours, it should've been 2 hours and an hour.
My solution removes the 2 hours, from the instance, leaving only 0.8 hours, and doesn't use moment's humanize function to avoid rounding.
Examples:
momentHumanize(45, 'minutes') // 45 minutes
momentHumanize(4514, 'minutes') // 3 days and 3 hours and 14 minutes
momentHumanize(45145587, 'minutes') // 85 years and 10 months and 1 days and 2 hours and 27 minutes

Answer 14

var s=moment([2020, 03, 29]).subtract(3, 'days').fromNow();
document.write(s)
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