Published 2020-10-03.
Last modified 2023-05-18.
Time to read: 1 minutes.
jekyll_plugins collection, categorized under Jekyll.
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 }}: 64
{{ "1959-02-03" | years_since }}: 64
{{ "1959-02-03T01:02" | years_since }}: 64
{{ "1959-02-03T01:02:00Z" | years_since }}: 64
{{ "1959" | months_since }}: 776
{{ "1959-02-03" | months_since }}: 775
{{ "1959-02-03T01:02" | months_since }}: 775
{{ "1959-02-03T01:02:00Z" | months_since }}: 775
{{ "1959" | weeks_since }}: 3378
{{ "1959-02-03" | weeks_since }}: 3373
{{ "1959-02-03T01:02" | weeks_since }}: 3373
{{ "1959-02-03T01:02:00Z" | weeks_since }}: 3373
{{ "1959" | days_since }}: 23646
{{ "1959-02-03" | days_since }}: 23613
{{ "1959-02-03T01:02" | days_since }}: 23613
{{ "1959-02-03T01:02:00Z" | days_since }}: 23613
{{ "1959" | hours_since}}: 567511
{{ "1959-02-03" | hours_since }}: 566719
{{ "1959-02-03T01:02" | hours_since }}: 566718
{{ "1959-02-03T01:02:00Z" | hours_since }}: 566723
{{ "1959" | minutes_since }}: 34050669
{{ "1959-02-03" | minutes_since }}: 34003149
{{ "1959-02-03T01:02" | minutes_since }}: 34003087
{{ "1959-02-03T01:02:00Z" | minutes_since }}: 34003387
{{ "1959" | seconds_since }}: 2043040150
{{ "1959-02-03" | seconds_since }}: 2040188950
{{ "1959-02-03T01:02" | seconds_since }}: 2040185230
{{ "1959-02-03T01:02:00" | seconds_since }}: 2040185230