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7 Use this package to easily convert various time formats to milliseconds.
12 ms('2 days') // 172800000
15 ms('2.5 hrs') // 9000000
19 ms('1y') // 31557600000
23 ### Convert from milliseconds
28 ms(ms('10 hours')) // "10h"
31 ### Time format written-out
34 ms(60000, { long: true }) // "1 minute"
35 ms(2 * 60000, { long: true }) // "2 minutes"
36 ms(ms('10 hours'), { long: true }) // "10 hours"
41 - Works both in [node](https://nodejs.org) and in the browser.
42 - If a number is supplied to `ms`, a string with a unit is returned.
43 - If a string that contains the number is supplied, it returns it as a number (e.g.: it returns `100` for `'100'`).
44 - If you pass a string with a number and a valid unit, the number of equivalent ms is returned.
48 1. [Fork](https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo/) this repository to your own GitHub account and then [clone](https://help.github.com/articles/cloning-a-repository/) it to your local device
49 2. Link the package to the global module directory: `npm link`
50 3. Within the module you want to test your local development instance of ms, just link it to the dependencies: `npm link ms`. Instead of the default one from npm, node will now use your clone of ms!
52 As always, you can run the tests using: `npm test`