pretty-ms

Convert milliseconds to a human readable string: 1337000000 → 15d 11h 23m 20s

Usage

$ npm install --save pretty-ms

var prettyMs = require('pretty-ms');

prettyMs(1337000000);
//=> '15d 11h 23m 20s'

prettyMs(1337);
//=> '1.3s'

prettyMs(133);
//=> '133ms'

// compact option
prettyMs(1337, {compact: true});
//=> '~1s'

// verbose option
prettyMs(1335669000, {verbose: true});
//=> '15 days 11 hours 1 minute 9 seconds'

// can be useful for time durations
prettyMs(new Date(2014, 0, 1, 10, 40) - new Date(2014, 0, 1, 10, 5))
//=> '35m'

API

prettyMs(milliseconds, [options])

milliseconds

Required
Type: number

Milliseconds to humanize.

options

secDecimalDigits

Type: number
Default: 1

Number of digits to appear after the seconds decimal point.

msDecimalDigits

Type: number
Default: 0

Number of digits to appear after the milliseconds decimal point.

Useful in combination with process.hrtime().

compact

Type: boolean
Default: false

Only show the first unit: 1h 10m → ~1h.

verbose