Do you have a pretty date?
Date : 2008 01 29 Category : Tech & Development
AjaxianJohn Resig has created a little script to give you pretty dates that Web 2.0 know and love (thanks Rails):
PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT:prettyDate("2008-01-28T20:24:17Z") // => "2 hours ago" prettyDate("2008-01-27T22:24:17Z") // => "Yesterday" prettyDate("2008-01-26T22:24:17Z") // => "2 days ago" prettyDate("2008-01-14T22:24:17Z") // => "2 weeks ago"
The library is short and sweet:
PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT:/* * JavaScript Pretty Date * Copyright (c) 2008 John Resig (jquery.com) * Licensed under the MIT license. */ // Takes an ISO time and returns a string representing how // long ago the date represents. function prettyDate(time){ var date = new Date((time || "").replace(/-/g,"/").replace(/[TZ]/g," ")), diff = (((new Date()).getTime() - date.getTime()) / 1000), day_diff = Math.floor(diff / 86400); if ( isNaN(day_diff) || day_diff <0 || day_diff>= 31 ) return; return day_diff == 0 && ( diff <60 && "just now" || diff <120 && "1 minute ago" || diff <3600 && Math.floor( diff / 60 ) + " minutes ago" || diff <7200 && "1 hour ago" || diff <86400 && Math.floor( diff / 3600 ) + " hours ago") || day_diff == 1 && "Yesterday" || day_diff <7 && day_diff + " days ago" || day_diff <31 && Math.ceil( day_diff / 7 ) + " weeks ago"; }