Published 2020-10-03.
Last modified 2023-05-18.
Time to read: 1 minutes.
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>.
{{ "1959" | years_since }}: 65 {{ "1959-02-03" | years_since }}: 65 {{ "1959-02-03T01:02" | years_since }}: 65 {{ "1959-02-03T01:02:00Z" | years_since }}: 65 {{ "1959" | months_since }}: 784 {{ "1959-02-03" | months_since }}: 783 {{ "1959-02-03T01:02" | months_since }}: 783 {{ "1959-02-03T01:02:00Z" | months_since }}: 783 {{ "1959" | weeks_since }}: 3410 {{ "1959-02-03" | weeks_since }}: 3405 {{ "1959-02-03T01:02" | weeks_since }}: 3405 {{ "1959-02-03T01:02:00Z" | weeks_since }}: 3405 {{ "1959" | days_since }}: 23872 {{ "1959-02-03" | days_since }}: 23839 {{ "1959-02-03T01:02" | days_since }}: 23839 {{ "1959-02-03T01:02:00Z" | days_since }}: 23839 {{ "1959" | hours_since}}: 572945 {{ "1959-02-03" | hours_since }}: 572153 {{ "1959-02-03T01:02" | hours_since }}: 572152 {{ "1959-02-03T01:02:00Z" | hours_since }}: 572157 {{ "1959" | minutes_since }}: 34376735 {{ "1959-02-03" | minutes_since }}: 34329215 {{ "1959-02-03T01:02" | minutes_since }}: 34329153 {{ "1959-02-03T01:02:00Z" | minutes_since }}: 34329453 {{ "1959" | seconds_since }}: 2062604145 {{ "1959-02-03" | seconds_since }}: 2059752945 {{ "1959-02-03T01:02" | seconds_since }}: 2059749225 {{ "1959-02-03T01:02:00" | seconds_since }}: 2059749225