From a1085184a1432a52b2cec43e8567d47df477b3ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nate Butler <iamnbutler@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2023 11:57:57 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] use `to_string` to return the format distance string from
 FormatDistance

---
 crates/ui2/src/utils/format_distance.rs | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/crates/ui2/src/utils/format_distance.rs b/crates/ui2/src/utils/format_distance.rs
index 1586a6e155b5ddc10391c25254d2e30b1e89a598..b0fce184ce64e23e1173ddcce77f3532fb0dfe5e 100644
--- a/crates/ui2/src/utils/format_distance.rs
+++ b/crates/ui2/src/utils/format_distance.rs
@@ -42,6 +42,16 @@ impl FormatDistance {
         Self::new(date, DateTimeType::Local(Local::now()))
     }
 
+    pub fn to_string(self) -> String {
+        format_distance(
+            self.date,
+            self.base_date.to_naive(),
+            self.include_seconds,
+            self.add_suffix,
+            self.hide_prefix,
+        )
+    }
+
     pub fn include_seconds(mut self, include_seconds: bool) -> Self {
         self.include_seconds = include_seconds;
         self