Tiny Human Time

A tiny module for human readable timespans.

API

humanize(t1, t2 [, units])

What you get when you require('tiny-human-time').

t1 and t2 are instances of Date or integers whose value relative to one another is given in milliseconds. Their order doesn't matter.

If t2 is not given, t1 alone will be used as the timespan relative to 0.

Either argument can be an array of the form [seconds, nanoseconds], like that produced by process.hrtime().

An optional last argument, units has possible values short and long, defaulting to long. units can be given as the last argument even if t2 is not given.

Returns the converted value and the greatest matching unit without going over. For example, 23 hours will be followed by 1 day.

humanize.short(t1, t2)

A convenience method to use short units. The possible arguments for t1 and t2 are the same as humanize.

Supports:

• nanoseconds
• microseconds
• milliseconds
• seconds
• minutes
• hours
• days
• weeks
• years

Usage

const humanize = require('tiny-human-time');

const now = new Date(2016, 3, 5);
const later = new Date(2016, 3, 6);

humanize(now, later);
// => 1 day

const humanize = require('tiny-human-time');

const start = process.hrtime()
// and then a miracle occurs
const elapsed = process.hrtime(start)

humanize(elapsed)
// => 23 microseconds

const humanize = require('tiny-human-time').short;

humanize(1)
// => 1ms