# How many Days, hours, minutes ago?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-many-days-hours-minutes-ago/114585>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [September 16, 2007, 4:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-many-days-hours-minutes-ago/114585 "2007-09-16T16:24:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![sharkie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/58f4c7/32.png) [@sharkie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sharkie)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2007, 4:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-many-days-hours-minutes-ago/114585/1 "2007-09-16T16:24:54Z")

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Is there a plugin or library that can output that information already?  
How would I also translate that into a non-English language?

Is this something that’s already available in Ruby or Rails?

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**Author:** ![sharkie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/58f4c7/32.png) [@sharkie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sharkie)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2007, 4:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-many-days-hours-minutes-ago/114585/2 "2007-09-16T16:42:53Z")

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Sharkie L. wrote:

> Is there a plugin or library that can output that information already?  
> How would I also translate that into a non-English language?
> 
> Is this something that’s already available in Ruby or Rails?

time\_ago\_in\_words(from\_time, include\_seconds = false)

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**Author:** ![sharkie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/58f4c7/32.png) [@sharkie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sharkie)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2007, 1:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-many-days-hours-minutes-ago/114585/3 "2007-09-17T13:23:50Z")

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Sharkie L. schrieb:

> Is there a plugin or library that can output that information already?  
> How would I also translate that into a non-English language?
> 
> Is this something that’s already available in Ruby or Rails?

Take a look at

[http://chronic.rubyforge.org/](http://chronic.rubyforge.org/)

–  
Jochen K.  
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