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Human-readable long epoch dates in vim
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" Human-readable long epoch dates (long meaning those that include milliseconds)
function! DateFromLongEpoch()
" Let the shell divide because vim only supports 32 bit ints
let sdate=system("echo $((". expand("<cword>") ."/1000))")
" Format the date
let human=tolower(substitute(strftime("%m/%d/%y %I:%M:%S%p", sdate), "\\\<0", "", "g"))
return human ." (". (sdate - localtime()) ." seconds from now)"
endfunc
map <leader>j :echo DateFromLongEpoch()<CR>
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Nice one

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I gave it a repo for easy Pathogen-ification: https://github.com/beaugunderson/vim-human-dates

(I also fixed the faulty regex)

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