How i can turn datetime to like "one minute age" in prisma node js graphql?

September 14, 2022

I’m trying to set the date time in Prisma migrate to human like one minute age, one month ago how I can manage to do it?

>Solution :

You can use the Internationalization API Intl to do just that.

It would look something like:

const formatter = new Intl.RelativeTimeFormat('en') // specify language here
console.log(formatter.format(-5, 'minutes')) // 5 minutes ago
console.log(formatter.format(5, 'months')) // in 5 months

Note that you need to specify the amount of time in English but if you change the language of the formatter, it will adapt the output to the specified language.

Of course you first need to calculate the amount of time first, but that shouldn’t be difficult 🙂