Time from now using Moment JS
Manymore developers are struggling to display time from now such as days ago, weeks ago, in N months, months/years ago, etc in JavaScript therefore today we’ll come with a new article where you will find the way to implement time from now using Moment JS.
In the previous JS article, we have explain how to Convert seconds to minutes and hours in JavaScript. In today’s article we will use Moment.js to get the time difference.
Add Moment Script
Use the below moment script to get time from now.
1 | <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/moment.js/2.26.0/moment.min.js"></script> |
Display timeago
Let’s use the below method to display time that is handled by moment. Moment has two different methods .fromNow() and .fromNow(Boolean) to get output.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 | // Get current datetime moment().format('lll'); // May 27, 2020 9:19 PM moment([2020, 0, 29]).fromNow(); // 4 months ago moment().fromNow(); // a few seconds ago moment('25-02-2020', 'DD-MM-YYYY').fromNow(); // 3 months ago moment('25-02-2020', 'DD-MM-YYYY').fromNow(true); // 3 months // Use future date moment('25-08-2020', 'DD-MM-YYYY').fromNow(); // in 3 months moment('25-08-2020', 'DD-MM-YYYY').fromNow(true); // 3 months |
The .fromNow(Boolean) method will be used to get a value without a suffix. We have already shown you the sample code in above snippets.
Check out the link for more information about the time range and output.
You can refer to one more article that we wrote in JavaScript using Moment.
Convert local time to another timezone using Moment JS
That’s it for today.
Thank you for reading. Happy Coding..!!
Thanks for this piece.
I want to ask if there is an algorithm that can help get yesterday’s date or last week date in a read-only using react, if a user enter today’s date.
Use the
subtractmethod to get the previous dates. Refer to the following link for more information.Disable the past and future dates