Moment.js how to use fromNow() to return everything in hours?

Question

I\'ve searching the moment.js docs and stackoverflow for a way to use the fromNow() function but returning everything in hours.

What I mean is:

Answer 1

If you definitely want to use fromNow(), I don't see any way other than overriding moment's built-in function. For example, you can override it to return the difference in hours as follows:

moment.fn.fromNow = function (a) {
    var duration = moment().diff(this, 'hours');
    return duration;
}

Then you can check that fromNow() returns the value in hours:

console.log(moment([2017,0,6]).fromNow());  

which returns:

19

Note: Tried at 19:00 :)