Generate textual time differences that are easily understandable by humans.
The class supports minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and years.
Examples:
- 5 seconds ago -> just now
- 65 seconds ago -> a minute ago
- 120 seconds ago -> 2 minutes ago
- a week ago
- 3 weeks ago
- a month ago
- 8 months ago
- a year ago
- 5 years ago
<?php require_once 'Date/HumanDiff.php'; $dh = new Date_HumanDiff(); echo $dh->get(time() - 3600);//shows "an hour ago" ?>
- https://github.com/azer/relative-date/blob/master/lib/relative-date.js
- Javascript; library that's been used as base for Date_HumanDiff
- https://github.com/rmm5t/jquery-timeago
- Javascript; with localization options
- http://pypi.python.org/pypi/py-pretty
- Python