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Tiny ms conversion utility
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Package description
The 'ms' npm package is a simple utility library for parsing and formatting various time formats. It allows you to easily convert between different time units such as milliseconds, seconds, minutes, hours, and days. It is commonly used to work with durations and timeouts in a human-readable format.
Convert from milliseconds to human-readable format
This feature allows you to convert a duration in milliseconds to a string that represents the duration in a more human-readable format, such as '1m' for one minute.
"const ms = require('ms');
console.log(ms(60000)); // '1m'"
Convert from human-readable format to milliseconds
This feature enables you to convert a human-readable time format into its equivalent number of milliseconds. For example, '2 days' would be converted to 172800000 milliseconds.
"const ms = require('ms');
console.log(ms('2 days')); // 172800000"
Round trip conversion
This demonstrates a round trip conversion where a human-readable duration is first converted to milliseconds and then back to a human-readable format.
"const ms = require('ms');
const duration = ms('1 hour');
console.log(ms(duration)); // '1h'"
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ms('2 days') // 172800000
ms('1d') // 86400000
ms('10h') // 36000000
ms('2.5 hrs') // 9000000
ms('2h') // 7200000
ms('1m') // 60000
ms('5s') // 5000
ms('100') // 100
ms(60000) // "1m"
ms(2 * 60000) // "2m"
ms(ms('10 hours')) // "10h"
ms(60000, { long: true }) // "1 minute"
ms(2 * 60000, { long: true }) // "2 minutes"
ms(ms('10 hours'), { long: true }) // "10 hours"
ms
in NPM.ms
, a string with a unit is returned.100
for '100'
).MIT
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Tiny millisecond conversion utility
The npm package ms receives a total of 171,955,772 weekly downloads. As such, ms popularity was classified as popular.
We found that ms demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 55 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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