what about future times?

[fdncred]

It would be nice to have the equivalent of .ago("ago") but for future times like .in("in") so when you have a time in the future it says in 8 hours and ago() and in() are mutually exclusive.

[vi]

Will it be similarly easy in in other languages?

ago adjustable was created with an eye to allow prepending "in " manually if needed (by using .ago("")). But proper support should come with i18n.

[fdncred]

I don't speak other languages well, but google translate says it could work with:

English: in 8 hours
French: dans 8 heures
Spanish: en 8 horas
Italian: tra 8 ore

[enomado]

use timeago::Formatter;

pub fn format_timeago(
    time_now: chrono::DateTime<chrono::Utc>,
    time: chrono::DateTime<chrono::Utc>,
    // diff: TimeDelta,
) -> String {
    let diff = time_now.signed_duration_since(time);

    if let Ok(ago) = diff.to_std() {
        let formatter = Formatter::new();
        let brr = formatter.convert(ago);
        return brr;
    }

    if let Ok(ago) = (-diff).to_std() {
        let mut formatter = Formatter::new();
        let formatter = formatter.ago("in");

        let brr = formatter.convert(ago);
        return brr;
    }

    return "cant convert".to_owned();
}