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Humanize Duration

I have the time in milliseconds and I want it to become "30 minutes" or "3 days, 1 hour". Enter Humanize Duration!

Basic usage

This package is available as humanize-duration in npm and Bower. You can also include the JavaScript 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)

Usage

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"

Humanizers

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.

Supported languages

Humanize Duration supports the following languages:

Language	Code
Arabic	ar
Catalan	ca
Chinese, simplified	zh_CN
Chinese, traditional	zh_TW
Danish	da
Dutch	nl
English	en
French	fr
German	de
Hungarian	hu
Italian	it
Japanese	ja
Korean	ko
Norwegian	no
Polish	pl
Portuguese	pt
Russian	ru
Spanish	es
Swedish	sv
Turkish	tr
Ukrainian	uk

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 langauges you define; it will only return the defaults supported by the library.

Credits

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

Licensed under the WTFPL, so you can do whatever you want. Enjoy!