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 Node 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(3600000, { units: ["hours"] })          // 1 hour
humanizeDuration(3600000, { units: ["days", "hours"] })  // 1 hour
humanizeDuration(3600000, { units: ["minutes"] })        // 60 minutes

humanizeDuration(3600000, {
  language: "es",
  units: ["minutes"]
})
// 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: ["years", "months", "days"]
})

spanishHumanizer(71177400000)  // "2 años, 3 meses, 2 días"
spanishHumanizer(71177400000, { units: ["days", "hours"] })  // "823 días, 19.5 horas"

You can also add new languages to humanizers. For example:

var shortEnglishHumanizer = humanizeDuration.humanizer({
  language: "shortEn",
  languages: {
    shortEn: {
      year: function() { return "y"; },
      month: function() { return "mo"; },
      week: function() { return "w"; },
      day: function() { return "d"; },
      hour: function() { return "h"; },
      minute: function() { return "m"; },
      second: function() { return "s"; },
      millisecond: function() { return "ms"; },
    }
  }
});

shortEnglishHumanizer(15600000)  // "4 h, 20 m"

You can also add languages after initializing:

var humanizer = humanizeDuration.humanizer();
humanizer.languages.shortEn = {
  year: 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:

Catalan (ca)
Chinese, simplified (zh-CN)
Chinese, traditional (zh-TW)
Danish (da)
Dutch (nl)
English (en)
French (fr)
German (de)
Japanese (ja)
Korean (ko)
Norwegian (nob)
Polish (pl)
Portuguese (pt)
Russian (ru)
Spanish (es)
Swedish (sv)
Turkish (tr)

Credits

Lovingly made by Evan Hahn with language support by Martin Prins. Thanks to Filipi Siqueira for Portuguese support, Peter Rekdal Sunde for Norwegian support, Michał Janiec for Polish support, Eileen Li for Chinese support, and Tommy Brunn for Swedish support.