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Converting DateTime to time ago in Dart/Flutter

The question is how to format a Dart DateTime as a string stating the time elapsed similar to the way you see times displayed on Stack Overflow.

Is there any better method than this

String timeAgo(DateTime d) {
 Duration diff = DateTime.now().difference(d);
 if (diff.inDays > 365)
  return "${(diff.inDays / 365).floor()} ${(diff.inDays / 365).floor() == 1 ? "year" : "years"} ago";
 if (diff.inDays > 30)
  return "${(diff.inDays / 30).floor()} ${(diff.inDays / 30).floor() == 1 ? "month" : "months"} ago";
 if (diff.inDays > 7)
  return "${(diff.inDays / 7).floor()} ${(diff.inDays / 7).floor() == 1 ? "week" : "weeks"} ago";
 if (diff.inDays > 0)
  return "${diff.inDays} ${diff.inDays == 1 ? "day" : "days"} ago";
 if (diff.inHours > 0)
  return "${diff.inHours} ${diff.inHours == 1 ? "hour" : "hours"} ago";
 if (diff.inMinutes > 0)
  return "${diff.inMinutes} ${diff.inMinutes == 1 ? "minute" : "minutes"} ago";
 return "just now";
}

Thank you and hope it helps others

Solution

  • I used timeago for the exact purpose and found it quite useful. It has multiple format and different languages support as well.