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JavaScript Pretty Date for Unix Epoch Time originally by John Resig
/*
* JavaScript Pretty Date
* Copyright (c) 2011 John Resig (ejohn.org)
* Originally Licensed under the MIT and GPL licenses.
* Derivative work Copyright (c) 2016 Deveedutta Maharana (statusok200.wordpress.com)
* Derivative work under MIT and GPL and WTFPL licenses.
*/
// Takes a Unix Epoch Time and returns a string representing how
// long ago the date represents.
function prettyDate( timeStamp ){
var date = new Date ( timeStamp * 1000 ),
diff = (((new Date()).getTime() - date.getTime()) / 1000),
day_diff = Math.floor(diff / 86400);
if ( isNaN(day_diff) || day_diff < 0 )
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" ||
day_diff >= 31 && day_diff < 365 && Math.ceil( day_diff / 31 ) + " months ago" ||
day_diff >= 364 && Math.ceil( day_diff / 365 ) + " yrs ago";
}
// If jQuery is included in the page, adds a jQuery plugin to handle it as well
if ( typeof jQuery != "undefined" )
jQuery.fn.prettyDate = function(){
return this.each(function(){
var date = prettyDate(this.title);
if ( date )
jQuery(this).text( date );
});
};
module.exports = prettyDate;
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