How can I convert a date into a string called just now; x minutes ago; x days ago, x weeks ago, x years ago etc

Question

On youtube you often don't get the actual upload date, it just says

uploaded x ys ago

so how can I achieve this in javascript? Just generate a friendly string from a date?

Possible duplicate of [Difference between two dates in years, months, days in JavaScript](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17732897/difference-between-two-dates-in-years-months-days-in-javascript) — Heretic Monkey, Sep 10 '19 at 19:11
Posting a duplicate is not a bad thing, nor is accepting that your question is a duplicate. Duplicates help people who use the same terms as you have find the same answer. — Heretic Monkey, Sep 10 '19 at 19:21

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 10 '19 at 19:11

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You can achieve this with Moment.js

moment("20120620", "YYYYMMDD").fromNow();

Result will be:

7 years ago

answered Sep 10 '19 at 19:11

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 10 '19 at 19:14

Just stole this from https://www.w3resource.com/javascript-exercises/javascript-date-exercise-49.php but this looks like what you are looking for

function diff_years(dt2, dt1) 
 {

  var diff =(dt2.getTime() - dt1.getTime()) / 1000;
   diff /= (60 * 60 * 24);
  return Math.abs(Math.round(diff/365.25));

 }

dt1 = new Date(2014,10,2);
dt2 = new Date(2014,10,11);
console.log(diff_years(dt1, dt2));

dt1 = new Date("June 13, 2014 08:11:00");
dt2 = new Date("October 19, 2017 11:13:00");
console.log("uploaded " + diff_years(dt1, dt2));

Dude above me looks like he has an easier way actually – Carr O'Connor Sep 10 '19 at 19:15 — Carr O'Connor, Sep 10 '19 at 19:15

How can I convert a date into a string called just now; x minutes ago; x days ago, x weeks ago, x years ago etc

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