Relative Time

Relative Time: Convert Dates & Times

A browser extension that simplifies date and time comprehension on web pages, converting them into relatable terms like '3 days ago' or 'in 5 months'.

What is Relative Time?

Relative Time is a browser extension available for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari that automatically converts absolute dates and times on web pages into relative terms. For example, it can convert "March 5, 2023" into "in 1 month" or "Last Tuesday at 3:15pm" into "4 days ago".

This makes understanding dates, times, and chronology easier for many people by putting them into more relatable contexts. Rather than needing to mentally calculate that March 5th is about a month away, it's displayed already in an easy to understand relative format.

The extension works on many common date and time formats on web pages. It scans each page and dynamically replaces absolute dates with their relative equivalent almost instantly. It can handle dates in the past and future, as well as times of day.

Relative Time offers customizable settings allowing you to tweak things like whether to use abbreviations for units of time (like "1 mo ago") and whether to update relative terms dynamically if a page is open for long enough. An optional toolbar icon allows manually updating all relatives on the current page.

If you often find yourself struggling to contextualize dates, times, and chronological order when browsing web pages, Relative Time can take away all the mental math. It's a simple but useful way to make dates and times on the web more accessible and easier to understand at a glance for many people.

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