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relative time in JavaScript

JavaScriptIntlIntl.RelativeTimeFormatintermediate

What this snippet does

RelativeTimeFormat produces strings like 'yesterday' and '3 months ago' without you writing any date arithmetic.

Expected output

yesterday
in 2 days
3 months ago
next year
10 minutes ago

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