Time Ago

This template uses Module:Time Ago (edit | hist), a script written in Lua.

Get the time since or time until a date.

Syntax

If the time is lower than the last date unit specified, the next valid date unit will be shown instead.
{{Time Ago|date|last = last date unit to display|include = comma list of the date units to display|hidelabel = show number only and hide label text}}

• Date units accepted:
  • y or year — display up to years
  • mth or month — display up to months
  • w or week — display up to weeks
  • d or day — display up to days
  • h or hour — display up to hours
  • min or minute — display up to minutes
  • blank — displays up to seconds

• include — takes priority over last, enter a comma list of valid date units to display
• last — defaults to blank.
• lowercase — lowercase output.

Examples

Basic Function

{{Time Ago|2025-12-23|last = w}} yields: In 1 year, 3 months
{{Time Ago|2025-12-23|last = y}} yields: In 1 year
{{Time Ago|2020-12-23|last = d}} yields: 3 years, 8 months, 4 weeks ago
{{Time Ago|2019-12-23|last = month}} yields: 4 years, 8 months ago

Pick and Choose units

{{Time Ago|2019-12-23|include = y,mth,d}} yields: 4 years, 8 months, 29 days ago
{{Time Ago|2019-12-23|include = mth}} yields: 56 months ago
{{Time Ago|2022-08-22|include = y,mth,d}} yields: 2 years, 30 days ago

No Labels

{{Time Ago|2020-09-28|hidelabel = 1}} yields: 3, 11, 3, 2, 5, 9, 8
{{Time Ago|2020-09-28|last = year|hidelabel = 1}} yields: 3

Lowercase

{{Time Ago|2050-09-28|last = y|lowercase = 1}} yields: in 26 years

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