How to format time since xxx e.g. “4 minutes ago” similar to Stack Exchange sites

Question

The question is how to format a JavaScript Date as a string stating the time elapsed similar to the way you see times displayed on Stack Overflow.

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Answer 1

function timeago(date) {
    var seconds = Math.floor((new Date() - date) / 1000);
    if(Math.round(seconds/(60*60*24*365.25)) >= 2) return Math.round(seconds/(60*60*24*365.25)) + " years ago";
    else if(Math.round(seconds/(60*60*24*365.25)) >= 1) return "1 year ago";
    else if(Math.round(seconds/(60*60*24*30.4)) >= 2) return Math.round(seconds/(60*60*24*30.4)) + " months ago";
    else if(Math.round(seconds/(60*60*24*30.4)) >= 1) return "1 month ago";
    else if(Math.round(seconds/(60*60*24*7)) >= 2) return Math.round(seconds/(60*60*24*7)) + " weeks ago";
    else if(Math.round(seconds/(60*60*24*7)) >= 1) return "1 week ago";
    else if(Math.round(seconds/(60*60*24)) >= 2) return Math.round(seconds/(60*60*24)) + " days ago";
    else if(Math.round(seconds/(60*60*24)) >= 1) return "1 day ago";
    else if(Math.round(seconds/(60*60)) >= 2) return Math.round(seconds/(60*60)) + " hours ago";
    else if(Math.round(seconds/(60*60)) >= 1) return "1 hour ago";
    else if(Math.round(seconds/60) >= 2) return Math.round(seconds/60) + " minutes ago";
    else if(Math.round(seconds/60) >= 1) return "1 minute ago";
    else if(seconds >= 2)return seconds + " seconds ago";
    else return seconds + "1 second ago";
}