lua-timeago

Simple Lua library library for displaying dates as relative time ago language

Installation

You can just copy the source files into your project or use the rock with luarocks.

Basic Usage

local timeago = require('lua-timeago')

local now = os.time()
timeago.format(now - (60 * 5)) -- Returns '5 minutes ago'

Language

The library uses English by default. You can set the language with set_language function. It accepts a string with the language file name from the languages directory or a dictionary with language rules (take a look at languages/en.lua for an example).

local timeago = require('lua-timeago')

local now = os.time()
timeago.format(now - (60 * 5)) -- Returns '5 minutes ago'

timeago.set_language('hy')
timeago.format(now - (60 * 5)) -- Returns '5 րոպե առաջ'

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Thanks to wscherphof/lua-timeago