Get the relative distance between two Time.Posix values, in words. For instance:
- "less than 5 seconds ago"
- "in 3 months"
- "about 1 hour ago"
Most of this is taken from the 0.18 package alpacaaa/elm-date-distance.
With the default settings, you get an English string, with either ".. ago" (for past) or "in ..." (for the future):
import Time.Distance exposing (inWords)
import Time exposing (millisToPosix)
exampleMillis : Int
exampleMillis = 1552573958904
exampleTime : Time.Posix
exampleTime = millisToPosix exampleMillis
inWords
(millisToPosix (exampleMillis - 1000*60))
exampleTime
-- "1 minute ago"
inWords
(millisToPosix (exampleMillis - 1000*60*65))
exampleTime
-- "about 1 hour ago"
inWords
(millisToPosix (exampleMillis - 1000*60*60*24*30))
exampleTime
-- "about 1 month ago"
inWords
(millisToPosix (exampleMillis + 1000*60*60*24*30*5))
exampleTime
-- "in 5 months"To remove the affixes ("ago"/"in"), or to use a different language, use inWordsWithConfig:
import Time.Distance exposing (inWordsWithConfig)
import Time.Distance.I18n as I18n
import Time exposing (millisToPosix)
exampleMillis : Int
exampleMillis = 1552573958904
exampleTime : Time.Posix
exampleTime = millisToPosix exampleMillis
monthBack : Time.Posix
monthBack =
exampleMillis - 1000*60*60*24*30
|> millisToPosix
inWordsSpanish =
inWordsWithConfig { withAffix = True } I18n.spanish
inWordsSpanishNoAffix =
inWordsWithConfig { withAffix = False } I18n.spanish
inWordsSpanish monthBack exampleTime
-- "hace alrededor de un mes"
inWordsSpanishNoAffix monthBack exampleTime
-- "alrededor de un mes"