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amp-timeago

Experimental
Bento

Description

Provides fuzzy timestamps by formatting dates as time ago (for example, 3 hours ago).

 

Required Scripts

<script async custom-element="amp-timeago" src="https://cdn.ampproject.org/v0/amp-timeago-1.0.js"></script>

Supported Layouts

Examples

amp-timeago

Usage

Use the amp-timeago component to count up to, or away from, a specified date and time.

The component replaces the text node with a fuzzy timestamp, such as in 30 years or 3 hours ago.

Example:

Saturday 11 April 2017 00.37 
<amp-timeago
  layout="fixed"
  width="160"
  height="20"
  datetime="2017-04-11T00:37:33.809Z"
  locale="en"
>
  Saturday 11 April 2017 00.37
</amp-timeago>
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The amp-timeago component requires a placeholder in the text node. The calculated timestamp replaces the placeholder once ready. Use the placeholder as a fallback to display to users if amp-timeago is unable to process the fuzzy timestamp.

Standalone use outside valid AMP documents

Bento AMP allows you to use AMP components in non-AMP pages without needing to commit to fully valid AMP. You can take these components and place them in implementations with frameworks and CMSs that don't support AMP. Read more in our guide Use AMP components in non-AMP pages.

Example

The example below demonstrates amp-timeago component in standalone use.

 
<head>
  <script async src="https://cdn.ampproject.org/v0.js"></script>
  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://cdn.ampproject.org/v0/amp-timeago-1.0.css">
  <script async custom-element="amp-timeago" src="https://cdn.ampproject.org/v0/amp-timeago-1.0.js"></script>
  <style>
    amp-timeago {
      height: 20px;
    }
  </style>
</head>
<amp-timeago id="my-timeago" datetime="2017-04-11T00:37:33.809Z" locale="en">
  Saturday 11 April 2017 00.37
</amp-timeago>
<div class="buttons" style="margin-top: 8px;">
  <button id='ar-button'>Change locale to Arabic</button>
  <button id='en-button'>Change locale to English</button>
  <button id='now-button'>Change time to now</button>
</div>

<script>
  (async () => {
    const timeago = document.querySelector('#my-timeago');
    await customElements.whenDefined('amp-timeago');

    // set up button actions
    document.querySelector('#ar-button').onclick = () => timeago.setAttribute('locale', 'ar');
    document.querySelector('#en-button').onclick = () => timeago.setAttribute('locale', 'en');
    document.querySelector('#now-button').onclick = () => timeago.setAttribute('datetime', 'now');
  })();
</script>

Layout and style

Each Bento component has a small CSS library you must include to guarantee proper loading without content shifts. Because of order-based specificity, you must manually ensure that stylesheets are included before any custom styles.

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://cdn.ampproject.org/v0/amp-timeago-1.0.css">

Fully valid AMP pages use the AMP layout system to infer sizing of elements to create a page structure before downloading any remote resources. However, Bento use imports components into less controlled environments and AMP's layout system is inaccessible.

Container type

The amp-timeago component has a defined layout size type. To ensure the component renders correctly, apply the following styles:

amp-timeago {
  height: 20px;
}

Attributes

datetime

The required datetime attribute sets the date and time. The value must be an ISO datetime.

  • Express time in UTC (Coordinated Universal Time): 2017-03-10T01:00:00Z
  • Express in local time with a time zone offset: 2017-03-09T20:00:00-05:00

locale (optional)

The local default is en. Add the locale attribute and specify one of the following values to chance the local.

  • ar (Arabic)
  • be (Belarusian)
  • bg (Bulgarian)
  • bn-IN (Bangla)
  • ca (Catalan)
  • cs (Czech)
  • da (Danish)
  • de (German)
  • el (Greek)
  • en (English)
  • en-short (English - short)
  • es (Spanish)
  • eu (Basque)
  • fa (Persian - Farsi)
  • fi (Finnish)
  • fr (French)
  • gl (Galician)
  • he (Hebrew)
  • hi-IN (Hindi)
  • hu (Hungarian)
  • id-ID (Malay)
  • it (Italian)
  • ja (Japanese)
  • ka (Georgian)
  • ko (Korean)
  • ml (Malayalam)
  • my (Burmese - Myanmar)
  • nb-NO (Norwegian Bokmål)
  • nl (Dutch)
  • nn-NO (Norwegian Nynorsk)
  • pl (Polish)
  • pt-BR (Portuguese)
  • ro (Romanian)
  • ru (Russian)
  • sq (Albanian)
  • sr (Serbian)
  • sv (Swedish)
  • ta (Tamil)
  • th (Thai)
  • tr (Turkish)
  • uk (Ukrainian)
  • vi (Vietnamese)
  • zh-CN (Chinese)
  • zh-TW (Taiwanese)

cutoff

Add the cutoff attribute to display the date specified in the datatime attribute after passing the specified date in seconds.

Common attributes

The AMP provided set of common attributes is available to <amp-timeago>.

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