timediff is a Go package for printing human readable, relative time differences.
Output is based on ranges defined in the Day.js JavaScript library, and can be customized if needed.
It's currently used by the mergestat command-line interface.
go get github.com/mergestat/timediff
import ( "github.com/mergestat/timediff" )
str1 := timediff.TimeDiff(time.Now().Add(-10 * time.Second)) fmt.Println(str1) // a few seconds ago str2 := timediff.TimeDiff(time.Now().Add(-3 * time.Minute)) fmt.Println(str2) // 3 minutes ago str3 := timediff.TimeDiff(time.Now().Add(-23 * time.Hour)) fmt.Println(str3) // a day ago str4 := timediff.TimeDiff(time.Now().Add(23 * time.Hour)) fmt.Println(str4) // in a day str5 := timediff.TimeDiff(time.Now().Add(10 * time.Hour)) fmt.Println(str5) // in 10 hours
Here are examples of durations and their corresponding string outputs (taken from test output), using default options:
-864000h 100 years ago
-172800h 20 years ago
-17280h 2 years ago
-8640h a year ago
-7200h1m a year ago
-7200h 10 months ago
-6480h 9 months ago
-1920h 3 months ago
-1104h 2 months ago
-1080h a month ago
-624h a month ago
-600h 25 days ago
-240h 10 days ago
-36h 2 days ago
-24h a day ago
-22h a day ago
-21h30m a day ago
-21h 21 hours ago
-20h 20 hours ago
-2h 2 hours ago
-90m 2 hours ago
-89m an hour ago
-80m an hour ago
-1h an hour ago
-60m an hour ago
-45m an hour ago
-44m 44 minutes ago
-10m 10 minutes ago
-2m 2 minutes ago
-90s 2 minutes ago
-89s a minute ago
-45s a minute ago
-44s a few seconds ago
-10s a few seconds ago
10s in a few seconds
44s in a few seconds
45s in a minute
89s in a minute
90s in 2 minutes
2m in 2 minutes
10m in 10 minutes
44m in 44 minutes
45m in an hour
60m in an hour
1h in an hour
80m in an hour
89m in an hour
90m in 2 hours
2h in 2 hours
20h in 20 hours
21h in 21 hours
21h30m in a day
22h in a day
24h in a day
36h in 2 days
240h in 10 days
600h in 25 days
624h in a month
1080h in a month
1104h in 2 months
1920h in 3 months
6480h in 9 months
7200h in 10 months
7200h1m in a year
8640h in a year
17280h in 2 years
172800h in 20 years
864000h in 100 years