I am a new to UI development and i have to develop a page which has a number of posts with creation dates. The creation date is displayed relative to current time like '3 hours from now'

I refereed this link and was able to do that successfully. But i want to refresh the from now value every 30 seconds. How to do this. The author has replied

I would say you would have to take another tac, and add an additional attribute to the scope - let's call it reply.fromNow - and update that value within the controller periodically using the moment library.

But i couldn't make much out of it. Can someone help me out with this thing? Thank you.

I am a new to UI development and i have to develop a page which has a number of posts with creation dates. The creation date is displayed relative to current time like '3 hours from now'

I refereed this link and was able to do that successfully. But i want to refresh the from now value every 30 seconds. How to do this. The author has replied

I would say you would have to take another tac, and add an additional attribute to the scope - let's call it reply.fromNow - and update that value within the controller periodically using the moment library.

But i couldn't make much out of it. Can someone help me out with this thing? Thank you.

• javascript
• angularjs
• momentjs

2 Answers 2

You could put something like this in your controller:

var refreshDates = function() {
    $timeout(refreshDates, 30000);
};
refreshDates();

Basically, it just trigger's a $scope.$apply() every thirty seconds.

Example

I made a wrapper for momentjs https://github./jcamelis/angular-moment

<p moment-interval="5000">{{"2014-05-21T14:25:00Z" | momentFromNow}}</p>

I hope it works for you.