timeago

In Rust, format Duration into string like "1 hour ago" or "01hou".

Currently it does not take the calendar into account and assumes each month is about 30.4 days long.

Parsing such string back to a Duration is out of scope for this crate. Maybe see the chrono-english crate instead.

API

Documentation link

Simplified API excerpt (pseudocode):

```rust pub struct Formatter{...}

impl Formatter { pub fn new() -> Formatter; pub fn withlanguage(l: Language) -> Self; pub fn numitems(&mut self, x: usize) -> &mut Self; pub fn maxunit(&mut self, x: TimeUnit) -> &mut Self; pub fn minunit(&mut self, x: TimeUnit) -> &mut Self; pub fn toolow(&mut self, x: &'static str) -> &mut Self; pub fn toohigh(&mut self, x: &'static str) -> &mut Self; pub fn max_duration(&mut self, x: Duration) -> &mut Self; pub fn ago(&mut self, x: &'static str) -> &mut Self;

pub fn convert(&self, d: Duration) -> String;
pub fn convert_chrono(&self, from: chrono::DateTime, to: chrono::DateTime) -> String;

}

pub fn from_isolang(x : isolang::Language) -> Option>;

pub fn format_5chars(d: Duration) -> String; ```

A Language can be constructed from isolang::Language.

Translations

• English
• Russian
• Spanish (contributed)
• German (unchecked)
• Belarusian (unchecked)
• Polish (unchecked)
• Chinese (contributed)
• Romanian (contributed)
• Swedish (contributed)
• Turkish (contributed)
• Japanese (contributed)
• French (contributed)

If you checked some language and certify that it's allright, submit a pull request that removes "(unchecked)" or "(contributed)" in the list above.

Tool

There is a helper command line tool that allows easier experimenting when adding a new translation:

$ cargo run --features isolang en Finished dev [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.0 secs Running `target/debug/timeago en` 60 1 minute ago 7200 2 hours ago

See also

• chrono-humanize