Make "ago" optional for time-ago

[antonmoiseev]

What do you think about making "ago" optional for time-ago? It's often useful to get a human-readable time span and combine it with custom suffix, e.g.: 2 days since the last meeting, 10 years of experience. moment.js supports similar feature via a boolean argument to fromNow(true) method.

[josh]

I agree this should be configurable somehow.

I was more thinking the entire format should be whats configured. That'd allow for internationalized formats of that string.

[antonmoiseev]

Format support would be great, but according to the docs time-ago never switches to displaying the date. Moment.js for example allows providing localized strings, but doesn't allow specifying a format for the from() method. Maybe proposed feature can be implemented as one more value for format attribute (like micro)?

[chicoxyzzy]

+1 for format attribute

That'd allow for internationalized formats of that string.

If so one also need language to be configured by attributes and not browser language settings. This option helps make things consistent if language of page and user local language from browser are differs.

[tomas-mikula]

How often does <time-ago> refresh? Because I see just now and then randomly later 36 seconds ago

[josh]

Hey all! The direction we're planning to take here is to lean on the new Intl.RelativeTimeFormat API for internationalization #104. Thanks!