"ago" filter

[vojtajina]

Would be nice to have a filter to display timestamps in more "human" way, relatively to current time. Something like:

x seconds ago, a hours ago, etc...

Note, that the messages need to be localizable.

[TEHEK]

Is there a way to inject locale other than passing an optional value?

[vojtajina]

I'm sorry, not sure I understand, what you mean...

Currently you can access service from filter through scope.$service('service-to-inject'); However, we are changing that so that you can inject into filters in the same way as into services...

[ijonlester]

This might seem like a silly question, but how would the $locale service work in this context? For example, I have the time date string 2011-10-25 21:32:00; I wrote a filter to format that into something friendlier like {{mydate|formatdate:"m/d/Y"}} to return a date like 10/25/2011. How would I use the $locale service within the filter to return a relative time like "3 minutes ago" into "hace 3 minutos"?

[TEHEK]

Not promising anything, but I have a nice idea that I'll try to implement this weekend. I think if we're doing "ago" we might also need something like "in future", which is essentially the same thing.

[btford]

Is this still something that we're interested in adding to AngularJS core? If so, I can write one sometime.

[gregwebs]

google brings up someone claiming to already have written something similar: http://avalanche123.com/blog/2012/02/29/angularjs-superheroic-javascript-mvc-framework/

[rosskukulinski]

+1. I may hack together a one-off for a prototype we're building but may not be modularized enough for a pull-request.

[gregwebs]

I use momentjs: it has a from function.

[rosskukulinski]

Does it tie into angular data?

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Greg Weber [email protected]:

I use momentjs: it has a from function.

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[gregwebs]

I just call it from the view so it stays up to date: something more efficient could be made.

[lrlopez]

An alternative was discussed some months ago. You could also have a look into this: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/angular/o7vl4tsg53w

There is a mention to momentjs at the end of the thread, although I haven't checked it yet.

[elgerlambert]

I could definitely use this, +1 from me!

[btford]

this should probably be a separate Bower module

On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 6:33 AM, Elger Lambert [email protected]:

I could definitely use this, +1 from me!

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[pkozlowski-opensource]

Agree with @btford

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