Twitter-like Date Formatter
moment.twitter.js is an extension to moment.js that formats dates like Twitter.
Works on both past and future dates.
Methods
moment().twitter()
Web-friendly formatting (alias moment().twitterLong()).
Examples:
Formats time relative to current time.
moment(moment() + (36e5 * 5)).twitter()
// 5 hours
Yes, it does smart pluralization.
moment(moment() + 36e5).twitter()
// 1 hour
Times greater than 24 hours are converted to dates like Mar 7
moment(moment() + 6048e5).twitter()
// Mar 7
moment().twitterShort()
For use on mobile.
Examples:
Units single characters, and there are no spaces.
moment(moment() + (36e5 * 5)).twitterShort()
// 5h
Times greater than 24 hours but more than 6 days are converted to days.
moment(moment() + (864e5 * 6)).twitterShort()
// 6d
Times greater than 6 days are slash-separated.
moment(moment() + 6048e5).twitterShort()
// 3/7/86
TODO
- Write some bad ass tests.
- Compile this with grunt, I guess.
- Get @timrwood to close timrwood/momentjs.com#24
- npm, require, commonjs, etc support.