Humanize Duration

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

This library is actively maintained but no new features will be added.

Basic usage

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

With require (like in Node or with common build systems):

const humanizeDuration = require('humanize-duration')
humanizeDuration(12000) // '12 seconds'

With a <script> tag:

<script src="humanize-duration.js"></script>
<script>
humanizeDuration(12000)
</script>

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(2250)      // '2.25 seconds'
humanizeDuration(97320000)  // '1 day, 3 hours, 2 minutes'

Options

You can change the settings by passing options as the second argument:

language

Language for unit display (accepts an ISO 639-1 code from one of the supported languages).

humanizeDuration(3000, { language: 'es' })  // '3 segundos'
humanizeDuration(5000, { language: 'ko' })  // '5 초'

delimiter

String to display between the previous unit and the next value.

humanizeDuration(22140000, { delimiter: ' and ' })  // '6 hours and 9 minutes'
humanizeDuration(22140000, { delimiter: '--' })     // '6 hours--9 minutes'

spacer

String to display between each value and unit.

humanizeDuration(260040000, { spacer: ' whole ' })  // '3 whole days, 14 whole minutes'
humanizeDuration(260040000, { spacer: '' })         // '3days, 14minutes'

largest

Number representing the maximum number of units to display for the duration.

humanizeDuration(1000000000000)                  // '31 years, 8 months, 1 week, 19 hours, 46 minutes, 40 seconds'
humanizeDuration(1000000000000, { largest: 2 })  // '31 years, 8 month'

units

Array of strings to define which units are used to display the duration (if needed). Can be one, or a combination of any, of the following: ['y', 'mo', 'w', 'd', 'h', 'm', 's', 'ms']

humanizeDuration(3600000, { units: ['h'] })       // '1 hour'
humanizeDuration(3600000, { units: ['m'] })       // '60 minutes'
humanizeDuration(3600000, { units: ['d', 'h'] })  // '1 hour'

round

Boolean value. Use true to round the smallest unit displayed (can be combined with largest and units).

humanizeDuration(1200)                   // '1.2 seconds'
humanizeDuration(1200, { round: true })  // '1 second'
humanizeDuration(1600, { round: true })  // '2 seconds'

decimal

String to substitute for the decimal point in a decimal fraction.

humanizeDuration(1200)                          // '1.2 seconds'
humanizeDuration(1200, { decimal: ' point ' })  // '1 point 2 seconds'

conjunction

String to include before the final unit. You can also set serialComma to false to eliminate the final comma.

humanizeDuration(22140000, { conjunction: ' and ' })                      // '6 hours and 9 minutes'
humanizeDuration(22141000, { conjunction: ' and ' })                      // '6 hours, 9 minutes, and 1 second'
humanizeDuration(22140000, { conjunction: ' and ', serialComma: false })  // '6 hours and 9 minutes'
humanizeDuration(22141000, { conjunction: ' and ', serialComma: false })  // '6 hours, 9 minutes and 1 second'

unitMeasures

Customize the value used to calculate each unit of time.

humanizeDuration(400)    // '0.4 seconds'
humanizeDuration(400, {  // '1 year, 1 month, 5 days'
  unitMeasures: {
    y: 365,
    mo: 30,
    w: 7,
    d: 1
  }
})

Combined example

humanizeDuration(3602000, {
  language: 'es',
  round: true,
  spacer: ' glorioso ',
  units: ['m']
}) // '60 glorioso 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.

const 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:

const shortEnglishHumanizer = humanizeDuration.humanizer({
  language: 'shortEn',
  languages: {
    shortEn: {
      y: () => 'y',
      mo: () => 'mo',
      w: () => 'w',
      d: () => 'd',
      h: () => 'h',
      m: () => 'm',
      s: () => 's',
      ms: () => 'ms',
    }
  }
})

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

You can also add languages after initializing:

const humanizer = humanizeDuration.humanizer()

humanizer.languages.shortEn = {
  y: () => '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`
Bulgarian	`bg`
Catalan	`ca`
Chinese, simplified	`zh_CN`
Chinese, traditional	`zh_TW`
Croatian	`hr`
Czech	`cs`
Danish	`da`
Dutch	`nl`
English	`en`
Farsi/Persian	`fa`
Finnish	`fi`
French	`fr`
German	`de`
Greek	`el`
Hungarian	`hu`
Icelandic	`is`
Indonesian	`id`
Italian	`it`
Japanese	`ja`
Korean	`ko`
Lao	`lo`
Lithuanian	`lt`
Malay	`ms`
Norwegian	`no`
Polish	`pl`
Portuguese	`pt`
Romanian	`ro`
Russian	`ru`
Slovak	`sk`
Spanish	`es`
Swedish	`sv`
Turkish	`tr`
Ukrainian	`uk`
Urdu	`ur`
Vietnamese	`vi`

For a list of supported languages, you can use the getSupportedLanguages function.

humanizeDuration.getSupportedLanguages()
// ['ar', 'bg', 'ca', 'cs', da', 'de', ...]

This function won't return any new languages 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
Patrik Simek for Czech support
Toni Helminen for Finnish support
Vidmantas Drasutis for Lithuanian support
Manh Tuan for Vietnamese support
Leonard Lee for Indonesian & Malay support
Jesse Jackson for documentation help
Óli Tómas Freysson for Icelandic support
Saeed Ganji for Farsi/Persian support
Caner Elci for Bulgarian support
Matej Kolesár for Slovak support
Abdul Jalil for Urdu support
Malikoun for Lao support

Licensed under the permissive Unlicense. Enjoy!

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angularjs-humanize-duration
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HumanizeDuration.ts, a TypeScript version of this module
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