回答10年的老问题，帮助新人。

我们可以将这个包用于javascript时间之前

 
// Load locale-specific relative date/time formatting rules.
import en from 'javascript-time-ago/locale/en'
 
// Add locale-specific relative date/time formatting rules.
TimeAgo.addLocale(en)
 
// Create relative date/time formatter.
const timeAgo = new TimeAgo('en-US')
 
timeAgo.format(new Date())
// "just now"
 
timeAgo.format(Date.now() - 60 * 1000)
// "a minute ago"
 
timeAgo.format(Date.now() - 2 * 60 * 60 * 1000)
// "2 hours ago"
 
timeAgo.format(Date.now() - 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000)
// "a day ago"

这些答案大多不能解释复数(例如:复数)。当我们想要“1分钟前”时，用“1分钟前”)

const MINUTE = 60;
const HOUR = MINUTE * 60;
const DAY = HOUR * 24;
const WEEK = DAY * 7;
const MONTH = DAY * 30;
const YEAR = DAY * 365;

function getTimeAgo(date) {
  const secondsAgo = Math.round((Date.now() - Number(date)) / 1000);

  if (secondsAgo < MINUTE) {
    return secondsAgo + ` second${secondsAgo !== 1 ? "s" : ""} ago`;
  }

  let divisor;
  let unit = "";

  if (secondsAgo < HOUR) {
    [divisor, unit] = [MINUTE, "minute"];
  } else if (secondsAgo < DAY) {
    [divisor, unit] = [HOUR, "hour"];
  } else if (secondsAgo < WEEK) {
    [divisor, unit] = [DAY, "day"];
  } else if (secondsAgo < MONTH) {
    [divisor, unit] = [WEEK, "week"];
  } else if (secondsAgo < YEAR) {
    [divisor, unit] = [MONTH, "month"];
  } else {
    [divisor, unit] = [YEAR, "year"];
  }

  const count = Math.floor(secondsAgo / divisor);
  return `${count} ${unit}${count > 1 ? "s" : ""} ago`;
}

然后你可以这样使用它:

const date = new Date();
console.log(getTimeAgo(date));
// 1 second ago
// 2 seconds ago
// 1 minute ago
// 2 minutes ago
// ...

将上面的函数更改为

function timeSince(date) {

    var seconds = Math.floor(((new Date().getTime()/1000) - date)),
    interval = Math.floor(seconds / 31536000);

    if (interval > 1) return interval + "y";

    interval = Math.floor(seconds / 2592000);
    if (interval > 1) return interval + "m";

    interval = Math.floor(seconds / 86400);
    if (interval >= 1) return interval + "d";

    interval = Math.floor(seconds / 3600);
    if (interval >= 1) return interval + "h";

    interval = Math.floor(seconds / 60);
    if (interval > 1) return interval + "m ";

    return Math.floor(seconds) + "s";
}

否则它会显示“75分钟”(介于1到2小时之间)。它现在还假定输入日期是Unix时间戳。

这是我的版本，它既适用于过去的日期，也适用于未来的日期。 它使用Intl。RelativeTimeFormat提供本地化字符串，而不是硬编码字符串。 您可以将日期作为时间戳、日期对象或可解析的日期字符串传递。

/** * Human readable elapsed or remaining time (example: 3 minutes ago) * @param {Date|Number|String} date A Date object, timestamp or string parsable with Date.parse() * @param {Date|Number|String} [nowDate] A Date object, timestamp or string parsable with Date.parse() * @param {Intl.RelativeTimeFormat} [trf] A Intl formater * @return {string} Human readable elapsed or remaining time * @author github.com/victornpb * @see https://stackoverflow.com/a/67338038/938822 */ function fromNow(date, nowDate = Date.now(), rft = new Intl.RelativeTimeFormat(undefined, { numeric: "auto" })) { const SECOND = 1000; const MINUTE = 60 * SECOND; const HOUR = 60 * MINUTE; const DAY = 24 * HOUR; const WEEK = 7 * DAY; const MONTH = 30 * DAY; const YEAR = 365 * DAY; const intervals = [ { ge: YEAR, divisor: YEAR, unit: 'year' }, { ge: MONTH, divisor: MONTH, unit: 'month' }, { ge: WEEK, divisor: WEEK, unit: 'week' }, { ge: DAY, divisor: DAY, unit: 'day' }, { ge: HOUR, divisor: HOUR, unit: 'hour' }, { ge: MINUTE, divisor: MINUTE, unit: 'minute' }, { ge: 30 * SECOND, divisor: SECOND, unit: 'seconds' }, { ge: 0, divisor: 1, text: 'just now' }, ]; const now = typeof nowDate === 'object' ? nowDate.getTime() : new Date(nowDate).getTime(); const diff = now - (typeof date === 'object' ? date : new Date(date)).getTime(); const diffAbs = Math.abs(diff); for (const interval of intervals) { if (diffAbs >= interval.ge) { const x = Math.round(Math.abs(diff) / interval.divisor); const isFuture = diff < 0; return interval.unit ? rft.format(isFuture ? x : -x, interval.unit) : interval.text; } } }

// examples
fromNow('2020-01-01') // 9 months ago
fromNow(161651684156) // 4 days ago
fromNow(new Date()-1) // just now
fromNow(30000 + Date.now()) // in 30 seconds
fromNow(Date.now() + (1000*60*60*24)) // in 1 day
fromNow(new Date('2029-12-01Z00:00:00.000')) // in 9 years

不使用Intl的替代方法。RelativeTimeFormat

/** * Human readable elapsed or remaining time (example: 3 minutes ago) * @param {Date|Number|String} date A Date object, timestamp or string parsable with Date.parse() * @return {string} Human readable elapsed or remaining time * @author github.com/victornpb * @see https://stackoverflow.com/a/67338038/938822 */ function fromNow(date) { const SECOND = 1000; const MINUTE = 60 * SECOND; const HOUR = 60 * MINUTE; const DAY = 24 * HOUR; const WEEK = 7 * DAY; const MONTH = 30 * DAY; const YEAR = 365 * DAY; const units = [ { max: 30 * SECOND, divisor: 1, past1: 'just now', pastN: 'just now', future1: 'just now', futureN: 'just now' }, { max: MINUTE, divisor: SECOND, past1: 'a second ago', pastN: '# seconds ago', future1: 'in a second', futureN: 'in # seconds' }, { max: HOUR, divisor: MINUTE, past1: 'a minute ago', pastN: '# minutes ago', future1: 'in a minute', futureN: 'in # minutes' }, { max: DAY, divisor: HOUR, past1: 'an hour ago', pastN: '# hours ago', future1: 'in an hour', futureN: 'in # hours' }, { max: WEEK, divisor: DAY, past1: 'yesterday', pastN: '# days ago', future1: 'tomorrow', futureN: 'in # days' }, { max: 4 * WEEK, divisor: WEEK, past1: 'last week', pastN: '# weeks ago', future1: 'in a week', futureN: 'in # weeks' }, { max: YEAR, divisor: MONTH, past1: 'last month', pastN: '# months ago', future1: 'in a month', futureN: 'in # months' }, { max: 100 * YEAR, divisor: YEAR, past1: 'last year', pastN: '# years ago', future1: 'in a year', futureN: 'in # years' }, { max: 1000 * YEAR, divisor: 100 * YEAR, past1: 'last century', pastN: '# centuries ago', future1: 'in a century', futureN: 'in # centuries' }, { max: Infinity, divisor: 1000 * YEAR, past1: 'last millennium', pastN: '# millennia ago', future1: 'in a millennium', futureN: 'in # millennia' }, ]; const diff = Date.now() - (typeof date === 'object' ? date : new Date(date)).getTime(); const diffAbs = Math.abs(diff); for (const unit of units) { if (diffAbs < unit.max) { const isFuture = diff < 0; const x = Math.round(Math.abs(diff) / unit.divisor); if (x <= 1) return isFuture ? unit.future1 : unit.past1; return (isFuture ? unit.futureN : unit.pastN).replace('#', x); } } };

我一直在寻找这个问题的答案，并且几乎实现了其中一个解决方案，但一位同事提醒我检查react-intl库，因为我们已经在使用它了。

所以在解决方案中…在使用react-intl库的情况下，它们有一个<FormattedRelative>组件。

https://github.com/yahoo/react-intl/wiki/Components#formattedrelative

function mdiv(dividend, divisor) {
    return [ Math.floor(dividend/divisor), dividend % divisor ];
}
// pass in milliseconds, gained by Date1.getTime() - Date2.getTime()
// if max_units is two, the result will be, for example
// 2years 12months ago, or 2hours 38minutes ago
// return formated period

function readable_period(ms, max_units=2){
    let [yy, yr] = mdiv(ms, 3.154e10);
    let [mm, mr] = mdiv(yr, 2.628e9);
    let [dd, dr] = mdiv(mr, 8.64e7);
    let [hh, hr] = mdiv(dr, 3.6e6);
    let [tt, ss] = mdiv(hr, 6e4);

    var ymdht = ['year', 'month', 'day', 'hour', 'minute'];
    let res = [];
    [yy, mm, dd, hh, tt].forEach((tis, ii)=>{
        if(res.length === max_units){return};
        if(tis !== 0){
            res.push(tis === 1 ? `${tis}${ymdht[ii]}` : `${tis}${ymdht[ii]}s`);
        }
    });
    return res.length === 0 ? '' : res.join(' ') + ' ago';
}