NAME
DateTimeX::Format::Ago - I should have written this module "3 years ago"
SYNOPSIS
my $then = DateTime->now->subtract(days => 3);
say DateTimeX::Format::Ago->format_datetime($then); # "3 days ago"DESCRIPTION
Ever wished DateTime::Format::Natural had a format_datetime method? This module provides human-friendly datetime formatting, outputting strings like "3 days ago".
Primary use case: websites that show a list of a person's recent activities.
Constructor
new(language => $lang)-
Creates a formatter object for the given language (a BCP47 language code). If the language is omitted, extracts it from
$ENV{LANG}.Decent English ('en'), German ('de'), French ('fr'), Portuguese ('pt'), Korean ('ko'), and Indonesian ('id') support is provided. Castillian Spanish ('es') is also provided, but some of the strings were translated with Google Translate, so they might not be perfect.
Methods
format_datetime($dt)-
Returns something like "3 days ago", "just now" or "hace un año".
parse_datetime($string)-
Croaks. Don't use this.
BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
High resolution datetimes
Imagine the time is currently 2020-01-01T12:00:00.200. If you try to format the time 2020-01-01T12:00:00.100 you'll get back the result "in the future". So what's going on? DateTimeX::Format::Ago figures out when "now" is using DateTime->now, which rounds back to the nearest whole second.
If you know you're going to be dealing with high resolution datetimes, and don't want to occasionally see "in the future" for times in the very recent past, then use Time::HiRes.
use Time::HiRes qw();That's all you need to do. Merely loading it will give DateTimeX::Format::Ago an indication that you want it to use a more accurate idea of "now".
Translations
This module only supports a handful of languages. I'm seeking translations. Feel free to attach patches for other languages as bug reports.
Reporting Bugs
Please report any bugs to http://rt.cpan.org/Dist/Display.html?Queue=DateTimeX-Format-Ago.
SEE ALSO
DateTime, DateTime::Format::Natural.
http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/bcp/bcp47.txt.
AUTHOR
Toby Inkster <tobyink@cpan.org>.
COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE
This software is copyright (c) 2011-2012, 2014 by Toby Inkster.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES
THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.