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Using the date extension

Dot-twigrenderer extends Twig with a function that calculates the difference between two dates. The function converts dates to a time ago string like Facebook and Twitter has. If null is passed as the second or third parameters, the current time will be used.

public function diff(
    Environment $env,
    string|DateTimeInterface|null $date,
    string|DateTimeZone|null $now = null,
): string;

Example usage

Pass Twig's Environment to the template

$loader = new \Twig\Loader\FilesystemLoader(__DIR__ . '/../../templates/page');
$twigEnv = new \Twig\Environment($loader);

$this->template->render('page::templateName', [
    'env' => $twigEnv,
    #other parameters
]);

This enables the use of the diff function:

{{ diff(env, '2024-02-20', '2024-02-18') }}