How to show XX minutes ago by Dynamic in my widget without second string?

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Created Jul ’20

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Learning Keeping a Widget Up To Date I know I can show Text with a dynamic time, but It's a fixed format like 32sec or 2 hours 23 minutes

How can I just show "23 minutes ago" without second string?

Thanks for help me

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Answer 1

CPSoftware OP

Jul ’20

Look into incorporating dateformat and date() in your code. Something like:

Code Block let formatter = Date()
formatter.dateformat = “mm”
Text(“\(mm) minutes ago”)”

That may not be the exact cod, but it should get you on the right track.

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Answer 2

JerryLiu OP

Jul ’20

Thank you for your reply @ CPSoftware

But My need is to show this text dynamic changed by system like Text("\(now, style: .timer) ago")

Using your func just show 2m ago will not change by increasing

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Answer 3

AndyJJ OP

Jul ’20

Hi,

You can use RelativeDateTimeFormatter generating your own string to show:

Code Block return RelativeDateTimeFormatter().localizedString(for: updated, relativeTo: Date())

Where updated is a Date.

Or in the View itself, using a Text view (update is again a Date):

Code Block Text(updated, style: .relative)

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Answer 4

lewis42 OP

Jul ’20

Just to clarify, there is no way to pass formatting options into the style parameter right?

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long-nguyen-au OP

Aug ’20

I'm also want to know how to format the date like this

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