Question

Is there a way to use the {{date|timesince}} filter, but instead of having two adjacent units, only display one?

For example, my template is currently displaying “18 hours, 16 minutes”. How would I get it to display “18 hours”? (Rounding is not a concern here.) Thank you.

Answer 1

I can’t think of a simple builtin way to do this. Here’s a custom filter I’ve sometimes found useful:

from django import template
from django.template.defaultfilters import stringfilter

register = template.Library()

@register.filter
@stringfilter
def upto(value, delimiter=None):
    return value.split(delimiter)[0]
upto.is_safe = True

Then you could just do

{{ date|timesince|upto:',' }}