ms-human-format

Duration formatter and parser

This library helps to format duration to and from human readable format.

How to use

In NodeJS

import { parseDuration, formatMs } from "duration-formatter";

parseDuration("2hours 30 minutes, 20 sec 453ms") === 9020453;
formatMs(1296575243) === "2 weeks 1 day 9 minutes 35 seconds 243 milliseconds";

In the browser - not yet supported

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