Fuzzy-Time is a new method for Ruby's Time class that presents the time in a more human-friendly format. Inspired by Objectpark's FuzzyClock.

fuzzy-time.rb

class Time
  def fuzzy
    # Converts 24 hour format to 12 hours
    self.hour >= 12 ? hour_num = self.hour - 12 : hour_num = self.hour
    min = self.min

    case hour_num         # Converting the current hour to a string
      when  0 then hour = "twelve"
      when  1 then hour = "one"
      when  2 then hour = "two"
      when  3 then hour = "three"
      when  4 then hour = "four"
      when  5 then hour = "five"
      when  6 then hour = "six"
      when  7 then hour = "seven"
      when  8 then hour = "eight"
      when  9 then hour = "nine"
      when 10 then hour = "ten"
      when 11 then hour = "eleven"
      when 12 then hour = "twelve"
    end

    hour_num += 1         # Converting the next hour to a string
    case hour_num
      when  1 then nexthour = "one"
      when  2 then nexthour = "two"
      when  3 then nexthour = "three"
      when  4 then nexthour = "four"
      when  5 then nexthour = "five"
      when  6 then nexthour = "six"
      when  7 then nexthour = "seven"
      when  8 then nexthour = "eight"
      when  9 then nexthour = "nine"
      when 10 then nexthour = "ten"
      when 11 then nexthour = "eleven"
      when 12 then nexthour = "twelve"
      when 13 then nexthour = "one"
    end

    if min < 3            # Returns the current time, off by +/- three minutes
      "shortly after #{hour}"
    elsif min >= 3 and min < 7
      "five past #{hour}"
    elsif min >= 7 and min < 13
      "ten past #{hour}"
    elsif min >= 13 and min < 18
      "quarter past #{hour}"
    elsif min >= 18 and min < 23
      "twenty past #{hour}"
    elsif min >= 23 and min < 28
      "twentyfive past #{hour}"
    elsif min >= 28 and min < 33
      "half past #{hour}"
    elsif min >= 33 and min < 38
      "twentyfive to #{nexthour}"
    elsif min >= 38 and min < 43
      "twenty to #{nexthour}"
    elsif min >= 43 and min < 48
      "quarter to #{nexthour}"
    elsif min >= 48 and min < 53
      "ten to #{nexthour}"
    elsif min >= 53 and min < 57
      "five to #{nexthour}"
    elsif min >= 57
      "nearly #{nexthour}"
    end

  end
  
end

Inspired by Objectpark's FuzzyClock.

I've always liked FuzzyClock too and came up with something similar to this: https://github.com/patricklewis/fuzzy_time