简单易读版本:

const relativeTimePeriods = [
    [31536000, 'year'],
    [2419200, 'month'],
    [604800, 'week'],
    [86400, 'day'],
    [3600, 'hour'],
    [60, 'minute'],
    [1, 'second']
];

function relativeTime(date, isUtc=true) {
    if (!(date instanceof Date)) date = new Date(date * 1000);
    const seconds = (new Date() - date) / 1000;
    for (let [secondsPer, name] of relativeTimePeriods) {
        if (seconds >= secondsPer) {
            const amount = Math.floor(seconds / secondsPer);
            return `${amount} ${name}${amount ? 's' : ''}s ago`;
        }
    }
    return 'Just now';
}

我一直在寻找这个问题的答案，并且几乎实现了其中一个解决方案，但一位同事提醒我检查react-intl库，因为我们已经在使用它了。

所以在解决方案中…在使用react-intl库的情况下，它们有一个<FormattedRelative>组件。

https://github.com/yahoo/react-intl/wiki/Components#formattedrelative

您可能需要查看humanized_time_span: https://github.com/layam/js_humanized_time_span

它与框架无关，并且完全可定制。

只需下载/包含脚本，然后你可以这样做:

humanized_time_span("2011-05-11 12:00:00")  
   => '3 hours ago'

humanized_time_span("2011-05-11 12:00:00", "2011-05-11 16:00:00)  
   => '4 hours ago'

甚至是这样:

var custom_date_formats = {
  past: [
    { ceiling: 60, text: "less than a minute ago" },
    { ceiling: 86400, text: "$hours hours, $minutes minutes and $seconds seconds ago" },
    { ceiling: null, text: "$years years ago" }
  ],
  future: [
    { ceiling: 60, text: "in less than a minute" },
    { ceiling: 86400, text: "in $hours hours, $minutes minutes and $seconds seconds time" },
    { ceiling: null, text: "in $years years" }
  ]
}

humanized_time_span("2010/09/10 10:00:00", "2010/09/10 10:00:05", custom_date_formats) 
  => "less than a minute ago"

更多信息请阅读文档。

我修改了Sky Sanders的版本。Math.floor(…)操作在if块中计算

       var timeSince = function(date) {
            var seconds = Math.floor((new Date() - date) / 1000);
            var months = ["January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December"];
            if (seconds < 5){
                return "just now";
            }else if (seconds < 60){
                return seconds + " seconds ago";
            }
            else if (seconds < 3600) {
                minutes = Math.floor(seconds/60)
                if(minutes > 1)
                    return minutes + " minutes ago";
                else
                    return "1 minute ago";
            }
            else if (seconds < 86400) {
                hours = Math.floor(seconds/3600)
                if(hours > 1)
                    return hours + " hours ago";
                else
                    return "1 hour ago";
            }
            //2 days and no more
            else if (seconds < 172800) {
                days = Math.floor(seconds/86400)
                if(days > 1)
                    return days + " days ago";
                else
                    return "1 day ago";
            }
            else{

                //return new Date(time).toLocaleDateString();
                return date.getDate().toString() + " " + months[date.getMonth()] + ", " + date.getFullYear();
            }
        }

也可以使用dayjs的relativeTime插件来解决这个问题。

import * as dayjs from 'dayjs';
import * as relativeTime from 'dayjs/plugin/relativeTime';

dayjs.extend(relativeTime);
dayjs(dayjs('1990')).fromNow(); // x years ago

这应该正确地处理任何有效的时间戳，包括Date.now()、单数单位和未来日期。我漏掉了月份，但是这些月份应该很容易加进去。我尽量保持它的可读性。

function getTimeInterval(date) { let seconds = Math.floor((Date.now() - date) / 1000); let unit = "second"; let direction = "ago"; if (seconds < 0) { seconds = -seconds; direction = "from now"; } let value = seconds; if (seconds >= 31536000) { value = Math.floor(seconds / 31536000); unit = "year"; } else if (seconds >= 86400) { value = Math.floor(seconds / 86400); unit = "day"; } else if (seconds >= 3600) { value = Math.floor(seconds / 3600); unit = "hour"; } else if (seconds >= 60) { value = Math.floor(seconds / 60); unit = "minute"; } if (value != 1) unit = unit + "s"; return value + " " + unit + " " + direction; } console.log(getTimeInterval(Date.now())); // 0 seconds ago console.log(getTimeInterval(Date.now() + 1000)); // 1 second from now console.log(getTimeInterval(Date.now() - 1000)); // 1 second ago console.log(getTimeInterval(Date.now() + 60000)); // 1 minute from now console.log(getTimeInterval(Date.now() - 120000)); // 2 minutes ago console.log(getTimeInterval(Date.now() + 120000)); // 2 minutes from now console.log(getTimeInterval(Date.now() + 3600000)); // 1 hour from now console.log(getTimeInterval(Date.now() + 360000000000)); // 11 years from now console.log(getTimeInterval(0)); // 49 years ago