Add human durations from an object besides the provided object properties.

It would be nice if Luxon users can transform objects into a describing date, besides the provided object properties.

I would suggest a new property in ToHumanDurationOptions interface.

Actual behavior:

const obj = { minutes: 125 };

const duration = Duration.fromObject(obj).toHuman();

console.log(duration); // => "125 minutes"

Feature suggestion:

const obj = { minutes: 125 };

const opt = { style: "complete" };

const duration = Duration.fromObject(obj).toHuman(opt);

console.log(duration); // => "2 hours, 5 minutes"

Currently I did this:

const obj = { minutes: 125 };

const raw = Duration.fromObject(obj).toFormat('dd-hh-mm');
const [days, hours, minutes] = raw.split('-');

const dayLabel = days > 1 ? 'days' : 'day';
const dayText = days > 0 && `${parseInt(days)} ${dayLabel}`;

const hourLabel = hours > 1 ? 'hours' : 'hour';
const hourText = hours > 0 && `${parseInt(hours)} ${hourLabel}`;

const minutesLabel = minutes > 1 ? 'minutes' : 'minute';
const minutesText = minutes > 0 && `${parseInt(minutes)} ${minutesLabel}`;

const duration = [dayText, hourText, minuteText].filter(text => !!text).join(', ');

console.log(duration); // => "2 hours, 5 minutes"

[KikoCosmetics]

@ricardocastanho thanks for the workaround. toFormat saved my bacon!!

I definitely don’t want to add the humanize library someone is suggesting. Luxon (TSLuxon in my case) should suffice!!

[linda-rian]

@ricardocastanho shiftTo method allows to achieve the same result:

const duration = Duration.fromObject({ seconds: 1236836 }).shiftTo("days", "hours", "minutes", "seconds");
    
console.log(duration); // => "14 days, 7 hours, 33 minutes, 56 seconds"

But you would still need to filter out false values.