Crate timeago

Given a Duration, lossily format it like in ‘N days ago’.

Parsing it back to Duration is not supported yet (See chrono-english crate).

Multiple languages are supported though Language trait. Enable isolang feature to gain support of getting Language impl from lsolang::Language.

You can configure minimum and maximum time units, as well as “precision” of how many items to emit.

Fractional results like “1.5 days ago” are not supported.

There is a special simplified version to get compact 5-character representation: format_5chars.

The main item of timeago is Formatter.

Re-exports

pub use languages::from_isolang;

pub use languages::english::English;

Modules

languages

A collection of natural languages supported out-of-the-box for the formatting.

Structs

Formatter

Main formatter struct. Build it with new() and maybe modify some options, then use convert.

Enums

StyleDeprecated

Simple formatting style for deprecated format.

TimeUnit

Various units of time to specify as maximum or minimum. Note that calculations are approximate, not calendar-based.

Traits

Language

Interface for connecting natural languages to use for the formatting See “language” module documentation for details.

Functions

formatDeprecated

Do the formatting. See Style’s docstring for formatting options. If you need just simple mode without bloated featureful implementation, use version 0.0.2 of this crate

format_5chars

A simplified formatter, resulting in short strings like “02Yea” or “ now “ or “07min”. Designed to always give 5-character strings.

Type Aliases

BoxedLanguage

Dynamic version of the Language trait