remainingTime

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Calculate the structured (years/months/days/hours/minutes/seconds) breakdown of time remaining until a target Gregorian date, plus a stringified Persian phrase and an `isFinished` flag. Use when implementing countdown widgets, event timers, or deadline displays. Triggers on mentions of remainingTime, countdown Persian, زمان باقی‌مانده, time until, deadline.

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remainingTime — countdown to a Gregorian target

import { remainingTime } from "@persian-tools/persian-tools";
// CommonJS
const { remainingTime } = require("@persian-tools/persian-tools");

Public export

remainingTime(date: string | number | Date): {
  years: number;
  months: number;
  days: number;
  hours: number;
  minutes: number;
  seconds: number;
  toString(): string;
  isFinished: boolean;
}

Behaviour

import { remainingTime } from "@persian-tools/persian-tools";

const r = remainingTime("2025-12-31T23:59:59Z");
r.years;            // e.g. 0
r.months;           // e.g. 7
r.days;             // ...
r.isFinished;       // false (target is in the future)
r.toString();       // Persian phrase composed of non-zero components, e.g. "۱ سال و ۲ ماه و ۱۵ روز"

Components are computed by floor-division using fixed second counts (365 * 86400 per year, 30 * 86400 per month). It's an approximation, not calendar-aware — months are 30 days, years 365. Don't use this for legal/financial deadlines that need calendar correctness.

When the target has passed

If Number(dueDate) - Number(now) <= 0, the function returns a zero-filled object with isFinished: true and toString() returning "".

const past = remainingTime(new Date("2000-01-01"));
past.isFinished;    // true
past.toString();    // ""
past.years;         // 0

Input handling

Accepts string | number | Date. Internally new Date(date) is used, so any value Date itself accepts works.
Invalid date input (e.g. "not-a-date") → new Date(...) is Invalid Date → isNaN(dueDate.getDate()) → throws: TypeError("PersianTools: remainingTime - The input must be a valid date").

toString() — Persian digit output

The string method emits Persian digits (via digitsEnToFa). The phrase concatenates non-zero parts with و:

r.toString();   // "۱ سال و ۲ ماه و ۱۵ روز و ۳ ساعت و ۲۰ دقیقه و ۵ ثانیه"

If you want English digits, build the string yourself from the numeric fields.

Common pitfalls

Calendar-naive math. A year is 365 × 86400 seconds; a month is 30 × 86400 seconds. Leap years and varying month lengths are ignored. For precise legal countdowns, use a calendar-aware library.
toString() returns "" when finished, not "0 ثانیه". If you want a "Finished" label, check isFinished first.
No Jalali support here. For Persian-calendar-aware countdowns to a Jalali date, convert the Jalali date to Gregorian first.

Companion: `timeAgo`

If you want "time since" rather than "time until", with a Jalali input format, use the timeAgo skill.

References

Tests: test/remainingTime.spec.ts
Related: timeAgo skill (relative past time from a Jalali date string)