how long ago the given time was compared to now

Question

Angular directive/filter/service for formatting date so that it displays how long ago the given time was compared to now

i have to display the time difference from the current time in angularjs .

created time 2015-09-01T10:59:00.568Z

current time 2015-09-01T11:00:00.568Z.

can anyone know how to display 1 min ago in a chat application window.

Answer 1

You can do this using a 'filter' to do your formatting. In the template you just apply the filter in your expression as in the following plunker I made.

Here's the HTML :

{{currentdate - prevdate | formatDiff}} mins ago}}

And here's your filter :

app.filter('formatDiff', function() {
  return function(items) {
    minutes = items/60000;
    return Math.round(minutes)
  }
})

Subsequently, if you want to display hours, days etc. you can tweak the code in your filter accordingly.