Learn Asynchronous Programming by Building an fCC Forum Leaderboard - Step 23

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Tell us what’s happening:

The explanation wants to user to create "
return “xm ago”
"
See explanation: return the string “xm ago”

Which doesnt make sense. I found the right way by checking the forum. Why do you want me to write "return “xm ago” "?

Your code so far

<!-- file: index.html -->


/* file: styles.css */


/* file: script.js */
// User Editable Region

const timeAgo = (time) => {
  const currentTime = new Date();
  const lastPost = new Date(time);
  const minutes = Math.floor((currentTime - lastPost) / 60000)
  const hours = Math.floor((currentTime - lastPost) / 3600000)
  const  days = Math.floor((currentTime - lastPost) / 86400000)

  if (minutes < 60) {
    return `${minutes}m ago`
  } else if (days < 24) {
    return `${hours}h ago`
  } else {
    return `${days}d ago`
  }
  
};

// User Editable Region

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Challenge Information:

Learn Asynchronous Programming by Building an fCC Forum Leaderboard - Step 23

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That function will be used to calculate the timestamp for the posts, so if now it is 8pm and the post was created at 7:12pm, your function should create the string "48m ago"

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I understand what they wanted from the beginning but its saying RETURN the STRING “XM AGO”
See whats between the quotes? “XM” and “AGO”. I cant be the only one thats thinking they want you to write “XM AGO” after RETURN.
Should it be hinting you towards writing AT LEAST “m ago” ??? or x “m ago” ??? come on man.

4

the X is a placeholder for the number, see the next sentence

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Are you a bot? I’m genuinely asking because I wrote that I understand the issue and wrote the issue with bold letters. FCC is asking you to write “XM AGO” in between the double quotes.

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  • If the amount of minutes that have passed is less than 60, return the string "xm ago". x will represent the minutes.
  • If the amount of hours that have passed is less than 24, return the string "xh ago". x will represent the hours.
  • Otherwise, return the string "xd ago". x will represent the days.

It tells you what x is.

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Thank you I did not see that!

Question, did you read: return the string “xm ago”
Where FCC literally tells you to write the string "xm ago" instead of telling you to write x "m ago". As I’m trying to explain. I can understand that “xm” just means x amount of minutes but that does not make sense if youre telling the user to literally write.

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Thank you for helping make FCC better. Bugs can be reported as GitHub Issues. Whenever reporting a bug, please check first that there isn’t already an issue for it and provide as much detail as possible.

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Using “x”, or “n”, or some other letter as a placeholder is common practice. For numbers, using “#” is fairly common as well. It tells you what the placeholder represents right after it.

Some examples:

  • Return the string "x was rolled". x represents the random number you generated.

  • Return the string "n is not a passing score". n represents the score you calculated.

  • Return the string "# is not a valid input". # represents the number the user gave as an input.

Anyway, if you think it can be clarified better, we are always open for changes and suggestions.

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