jattac.react.recents/src/TimeFormatter.ts

A React component and utility for tracking and displaying recent browser locations and URLs.

export const formatFriendlyTime = (isoDate: string): string => {
  const date = new Date(isoDate);
  const now = new Date();
  const diffInSeconds = Math.floor((now.getTime() - date.getTime()) / 1000);
  const diffInMinutes = Math.floor(diffInSeconds / 60);
  const diffInHours = Math.floor(diffInSeconds / 3600);
  const diffInDays = Math.floor(diffInSeconds / 86400);
  const diffInWeeks = Math.floor(diffInSeconds / 604800);
  const diffInMonths = Math.floor(diffInSeconds / 2592000);

  if (diffInSeconds < 60) return `${diffInSeconds} seconds ago`;
  if (diffInMinutes < 60) return `${diffInMinutes} minutes ago`;
  if (diffInHours < 24) return `${diffInHours} hours ago`;
  if (diffInDays === 1) return "Yesterday";
  if (diffInDays < 7) return `${diffInDays} days ago`;
  if (diffInWeeks < 4) return `${diffInWeeks} weeks ago`;
  if (diffInMonths < 12) return `${diffInMonths} months ago`;

  return date.toLocaleDateString(); // Return a more standard date format if it's more than a year ago
};