timeago

timeago is a dart library that converts a date into a humanized text. Instead of showing a date 2020-12-12 18:30 with timeago you can display something like "now", "an hour ago", "~1y", etc

timeago		core library
timeago_flutter		flutter widgets

The easiest way to use this library via top-level function format(date):

import 'package:timeago/timeago.dart' as timeago;

main() {
    final fifteenAgo = DateTime.now().subtract(Duration(minutes: 15));

    print(timeago.format(fifteenAgo)); // 15 minutes ago
    print(timeago.format(fifteenAgo, locale: 'en_short')); // 15m
    print(timeago.format(fifteenAgo, locale: 'es')); // hace 15 minutos
}

IMPORTANT

timeago library ONLY includes en and es messages loaded by default.

To add more of the supported languages use timeago.setLocaleMessages(..). See locale messages.

Standard for language code

This library uses ISO 639-1 language code to identify the language. For more information see ISO 639-1.

Adding locales

timeago.setLocaleMessages('fr', timeago.FrMessages()); // Add french messages

print(timeago.format(fifteenAgo, locale: 'es')); // environ 15 minutes

Overriding locales or adding custom messages

// Override "en" locale messages with custom messages that are more precise and short
timeago.setLocaleMessages('en', MyCustomMessages());


// my_custom_messages.dart
class MyCustomMessages implements LookupMessages {
  @override String prefixAgo() => '';
  @override String prefixFromNow() => '';
  @override String suffixAgo() => '';
  @override String suffixFromNow() => '';
  @override String lessThanOneMinute(int seconds) => 'now';
  @override String aboutAMinute(int minutes) => '${minutes}m';
  @override String minutes(int minutes) => '${minutes}m';
  @override String aboutAnHour(int minutes) => '${minutes}m';
  @override String hours(int hours) => '${hours}h';
  @override String aDay(int hours) => '${hours}h';
  @override String days(int days) => '${days}d';
  @override String aboutAMonth(int days) => '${days}d';
  @override String months(int months) => '${months}mo';
  @override String aboutAYear(int year) => '${year}y';
  @override String years(int years) => '${years}y';
  @override String wordSeparator() => ' ';
}

Scope

While there are many request for adding more complex functionality I want keep this library as simple as possible to allow minimal maintenance.

The focus of this library should be

Provide a single format function that transforms a date to a humanized value
Give the abstractions for users to add their own languages or overriding them as they please
Provide languages contributed by the community so users can add them as they need we should not add all languages by default.
Library should not depend on any dependency