NAME

NAME
DateTimeX::Format::Ago - I should have written this module "3 years ago"

SYNOPSIS
my $then = DateTime->now->subtract(days => 3);
say DateTimeX::Format::Ago->format_datetime($then); # "3 days ago"

DESCRIPTION
Ever wished DateTime::Format::Natural had a `format_datetime` method? This
module provides human-friendly datetime formatting, outputting strings
like "3 days ago".

Primary use case: websites that show a list of a person's recent
activities.

Constructor
`new(language => $lang)`
Creates a formatter object for the given language (a BCP47 language
code). If the language is omitted, extracts it from $ENV{LANG}.

Decent English ('en'), German ('de'), French ('fr'), Portuguese
('pt'), Korean ('ko'), and Indonesian ('id') support is provided.
Castillian Spanish ('es') is also provided, but some of the strings
were translated with Google Translate, so they might not be perfect.

Methods
`format_datetime($dt)`
Returns something like "3 days ago", "just now" or "hace un año".

`parse_datetime($string)`
Croaks. Don't use this.

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
High resolution datetimes
Imagine the time is currently 2020-01-01T12:00:00.200. If you try to
format the time 2020-01-01T12:00:00.100 you'll get back the result "in the
future". So what's going on? DateTimeX::Format::Ago figures out when "now"
is using `DateTime->now`, which rounds back to the nearest whole second.

If you know you're going to be dealing with high resolution datetimes, and
don't want to occasionally see "in the future" for times in the very
recent past, then use Time::HiRes.

use Time::HiRes qw();

That's all you need to do. Merely loading it will give
DateTimeX::Format::Ago an indication that you want it to use a more
accurate idea of "now".

Translations
This module only supports a handful of languages. I'm seeking
translations. Feel free to attach patches for other languages as bug
reports.

Reporting Bugs
Please report any bugs to
<http://rt.cpan.org/Dist/Display.html?Queue=DateTimeX-Format-Ago>.

SEE ALSO
DateTime, DateTime::Format::Natural.

<http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/bcp/bcp47.txt>.

AUTHOR
Toby Inkster <[email protected]>.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE
This software is copyright (c) 2011-2012, 2014 by Toby Inkster.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES
THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED
WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.