How to display "x days ago" type time using Humanize in Django template?
Django has a built-in template filter timesince that offers the same output you mentioned above. The following filter just strips the second part after the comma:
from datetime import datetime, timedeltafrom django import templatefrom django.utils.timesince import timesinceregister = template.Library()@register.filterdef age(value): now = datetime.now() try: difference = now - value except: return value if difference <= timedelta(minutes=1): return 'just now' return '%(time)s ago' % {'time': timesince(value).split(', ')[0]}
You should duplicate your django.contrib.humanize.templatetags.humanize.py to myapp.templatetags.myhumanize and modify it to your needs. (I can't find the actual line that returns "x days, y hours ago". Which version of django/humanize are you using?)
There is naturaltime in modern django.
Given now is 17 Feb 2007 16:30:00.
It changes 16 Feb 2007 13:31:29 to 1 day, 2 hours ago.
{# some_template.html #}{% load humanize %}{{ past_time | naturaltime }}https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/ref/contrib/humanize/#naturaltime