Published 2020-10-03.
Last modified 2023-05-18.
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jekyll_plugins
collection.
time_since
is a collection of Liquid filters that return the elapsed time since a date or date and time.
The filters are years_since
, months_since
, days_since
, hours_since
, minutes_since
and seconds_since
.
Installation
Add the following highlighted line to your Jekyll project's Gemfile
,
within the jekyll_plugins
group:
group :jekyll_plugins do gem 'jekyll_time_since' end
And then execute:
$ bundle
Usage Examples
These tags all work in a similar manner;
they accept one parameter, which is either a date string (YYYY-MM-dd
) or
an ISO 8601-1:2019 datetime string (YYYY-MM-ddThh:mm
).
Just a year can be specified, which implies Jan 1 at midnight.
The date and time strings can be surrounded with quotes or double quotes.
Time zone can be omitted, or specified as GMT
, Z
, or +/- HHMM/code>.
{{ "1956" | years_since }}: 69 {{ "1956-10-15" | years_since }}: 68 {{ "1956-10-15T01:02" | years_since }}: 68 {{ "1956-10-15T01:02:00Z" | years_since }}: 68 {{ "1956" | months_since }}: 831 {{ "1956-10-15" | months_since }}: 822 {{ "1956-10-15T01:02" | months_since }}: 822 {{ "1956-10-15T01:02:00Z" | months_since }}: 822 {{ "1956" | weeks_since }}: 3616 {{ "1956-10-15" | weeks_since }}: 3575 {{ "1956-10-15T01:02" | weeks_since }}: 3575 {{ "1956-10-15T01:02:00Z" | weeks_since }}: 3575 {{ "1956" | days_since }}: 25317 {{ "1956-10-15" | days_since }}: 25029 {{ "1956-10-15T01:02" | days_since }}: 25029 {{ "1956-10-15T01:02:00Z" | days_since }}: 25029 {{ "1956" | hours_since}}: 607617 {{ "1956-10-15" | hours_since }}: 600706 {{ "1956-10-15T01:02" | hours_since }}: 600705 {{ "1956-10-15T01:02:00Z" | hours_since }}: 600709 {{ "1956" | minutes_since }}: 36457026 {{ "1956-10-15" | minutes_since }}: 36042366 {{ "1956-10-15T01:02" | minutes_since }}: 36042304 {{ "1956-10-15T01:02:00Z" | minutes_since }}: 36042544 {{ "1956" | seconds_since }}: 2187421585 {{ "1956-10-15" | seconds_since }}: 2162541985 {{ "1956-10-15T01:02" | seconds_since }}: 2162538265 {{ "1956-10-15T01:02:00" | seconds_since }}: 2162538265