I'm trying to convert duration in seconds using Luxon using the Duration.fromMillis().toFormat().

I want it to output 1d2h for one day and two hours, but I can't escape the d and h.

Here's what I tried so far

Duration.fromMillis(3600 * 26 * 1000).toFormat('d\dh\h')
Duration.fromMillis(3600 * 26 * 1000).toFormat('d[d]h[h]') // Like MomentJS

Both doesn't work

I'm trying to convert duration in seconds using Luxon using the Duration.fromMillis().toFormat().

I want it to output 1d2h for one day and two hours, but I can't escape the d and h.

Here's what I tried so far

Duration.fromMillis(3600 * 26 * 1000).toFormat('d\dh\h')
Duration.fromMillis(3600 * 26 * 1000).toFormat('d[d]h[h]') // Like MomentJS

Both doesn't work

• javascript
• datetime-format
• luxon

• 1 Formatting guide : escape characters with single quotes. – k.tten Commented May 5, 2022 at 14:28
• 1 Use .toFormat("d'd'h'h'") – Timur Commented May 5, 2022 at 18:09

1 Answer 1

As already stated by others in the ment, you can use single quotes to escape charcters in luxon, see Escaping secction of the docs:

You may escape strings using single quotes:

DateTime.now().toFormat("HH 'hours and' mm 'minutes'"); //=> '20 hours and 55 minutes'

Here a working example:

const Duration = luxon.Duration;
console.log(Duration.fromMillis(3600 * 26 * 1000).toFormat("d'd'h'h'"));

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