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psammead-timestamp-container -

Description

psammead-timestamp-container is a React container that offers relative and absolute times, with timezone support - using moment-timezone. Relative times are currently hard-coded to English (e.g. 3 minutes ago). psammead-timestamp-container returns a single time element.

Exports

/utilities - exports functions for dealing with timestamps.

When to use this component

psammead-timestamp-container is intended to be used when a single time DOM element that has the possibility of having varying time formats and timezones is required.

Installation

npm install @bbc/psammead-timestamp-container

Props

Argument	Type	Required	Default	Example
timestamp	number or string	Yes	N/A	`1530947227000`, `'2012-03-08T12:17:24.000Z'`
dateTimeFormat	string	Yes	N/A	`YYYY-MM-DD`
isRelative	boolean	No	`false`	`true`
format	string	No	`null`	`D MMMM YYYY, HH:mm z`
timezone	string	No	`'Europe/London'`	`'Europe/London'`
padding	boolean	No	`true`	`false`
prefix	string	No	`null`	`Updated`
suffix	string	No	`null`	`This is a suffix`
script	object	Yes	N/A	`{ canon: { groupA: { fontSize: '28', lineHeight: '32',}, groupB: { fontSize: '32', lineHeight: '36', }, groupD: { fontSize: '44', lineHeight: '48', }, }, trafalgar: { groupA: { fontSize: '20', lineHeight: '24', }, groupB: { fontSize: '24', lineHeight: '28', }, groupD: { fontSize: '32', lineHeight: '36', }, }, }`
locale	string	no	`null`	`en`
service	string	yes	`null`	`news`
altCalendar	object	no	`null`	See the `jalaali` calendar in psammead-calendars as an example

locale should be a momentjs locale.

Usage

import { latin } from '@bbc/gel-foundations/scripts';

const WrappingContainer = () => (
  <Timestamp
    timestamp={1530947227000}
    dateTimeFormat="YYYY-MM-DD"
    isRelative={false}
    format="D MMMM YYYY"
    timezone="Europe/London"
    prefix="Updated"
    suffix="."
    script={latin}
    locale="en"
  />
);

Utilities

formatDuration

import { formatDuration } from '@bbc/psammead-timestamp-container/utilities';

const localisedDuration = formatDuration({ duration: 'PTM30', locale: 'my' });
const customFormatDuration = formatDuration({
  duration: 'PTM30',
  format: 'mm,ss',
});

Argument	Type	Required	Default	Example
duration	string	Yes	N/A	`PTH1M29S30` Duration string as specified by ISO 8601 standard.
format	string	No	`mm:ss`, or `h:mm:ss` if in hours	`mm,ss`
locale	string	No	`en-gb`	`fr`

localisedMoment

import { localisedMoment } from '@bbc/psammead-timestamp-container/utilities';

const localisedMoment = localisedMoment({ locale, timestamp });

Argument	Type	Required	Default	Example
timestamp	number or string	Yes	N/A	`1539969006000` (Unix timestamp), `'2012-03-08T12:17:24.000Z'` (ISO8601 string)
locale	string	Yes	N/A	`fr`

formatUnixTimestamp

import { localiseTimestamp } from '@bbc/psammead-timestamp-container/utilities';

const formattedTime = formatUnixTimestamp({
  format,
  isRelative,
  locale,
  timestamp,
  timezone,
});

Argument	Type	Required	Default	Example
format	string	No	'LL, LT z'	`'D MMMM YYYY z'` a moment format string
isRelative	boolean	Yes	N/A	`true` When true, formats in relative time
locale	string	Yes	N/A	`fr` Moment locale
timestamp	number or string	Yes	N/A	`1539969006000` (Unix timestamp), `'2012-03-08T12:17:24.000Z'` (ISO8601 string)
timezone	string	Yes	N/A	`'GMT'`, `'Asia/Seoul'` see (moment-timezone documentation)https://momentjs.com/timezone/

Accessibility notes

The usage of the semantic time element within psammead-timestamp component can result in strange behaviours when using assistive technology such as VoiceOver for iOS. Specifically, it results in a "text splitting" behaviour, where any text in the prefix is read out, but the value inside the semantic time element require an additional swipe before being read out.

However, as we heavily encourage the use of this semantic element, and want to ensure it's usage is in line with the W3C examples, we feel this compromise is necessary.

Roadmap

Currently, this package only supports relative time in English. The plan is to make this package more suitable for use on World Service sites by including logic to render relative time in multiple languages.

Contributing

Psammead is completely open source. We are grateful for any contributions, whether they be new components, bug fixes or general improvements. Please see our primary contributing guide which can be found at the root of the Psammead respository.

Code of Conduct

We welcome feedback and help on this work. By participating in this project, you agree to abide by the code of conduct. Please take a moment to read it.