format message on angular-moment moment.js

Question

How would i change the ago message using angular-moment. i use this angular-moment library to show time ago message.

 <span am-time-ago="created_at"></span>

It shows messages like "a few seconds ago".

How can we make this message shorter? Can we remove ago from this message? So the message would be like: 1sec , 1min, 12min , 1hour, 12hours, 2years etc.

I tried to do this using:

moment.lang('en', {
relativeTime : {
    future: "in %s",
    past:   "%s ago",
    s:  "sec",
    m:  "1m",
    mm: "%m",
    h:  "1h",
    hh: "%h",
    d:  "1d",
    dd: "%dd",
    M:  "1m",
    MM: "%dm",
    y:  "1y",
    yy: "%dy"
}
});

placed this thing in angular app.js after module. It worked well for 1 sec, 1 min, 1 hr, etc..
but it shows % in place of absolute time. like %min, instead of 12min.

Any suggestion?

Answer 1

angular-moment provides amTimeAgoConfig, for specifying whether or not ago should be displayed:

app.constant('amTimeAgoConfig', {
  withoutSuffix: true
});

moment.js allows us to define functions to format relativeTime, and these seem to work with angular-moment. In this example, I defined functions for seconds and minutes:

moment.lang('en', {
  relativeTime: {
    future: "in %s",
    past: "%s ago",
    s: function(number, withoutSuffix, key, isFuture) {
      return number + ' sec';
    },
    m: "1m",
    mm: function(number, withoutSuffix, key, isFuture) {
      return number + 'm';
    }
  }
});

If you want to try the code, here it is on Plunker.