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JavaScript Pretty Date
/*
* 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.
// modified to return DD MM format instead of undefined.
, prettyDate: function (time) {
var date = new Date((time || "").replace(/-/g,"/").replace(/[TZ]/g," ")),
diff = (((new Date()).getTime() - date.getTime()) / 1000),
day_diff = Math.floor(diff / 86400);
// return date for anything greater than a day
if ( isNaN(day_diff) || day_diff < 0 || day_diff > 0 )
return date.getDate() + " " + date.toDateString().split(" ")[1];
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";
}
@AparnnaMS
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can something like
day_diff==32 && "last month" ||
day_diff<61 && Math.ceil(day_diff/30) + "months ago";

use for showing "Number of Months Ago"?

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