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UNIX timestamp to seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, month, years, decades ago.java
public static String caluculateTimeAgo(long timeStamp) {
long timeDiffernce;
long unixTime = System.currentTimeMillis() / 1000L; //get current time in seconds.
int j;
String[] periods = {"s", "m", "h", "d", "w", "m", "y", "d"};
// you may choose to write full time intervals like seconds, minutes, days and so on
double[] lengths = {60, 60, 24, 7, 4.35, 12, 10};
timeDiffernce = unixTime - timeStamp;
String tense = "ago";
for (j = 0; timeDiffernce >= lengths[j] && j < lengths.length - 1; j++) {
timeDiffernce /= lengths[j];
}
return timeDiffernce + periods[j] + " " + tense;
}
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details are here http://dostmuhammad.com/blog/converting-unix-timestamp-to-seconds-minutes-hours-days-weeks-month-years-decades-ago/

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Fshamri commented Jan 2, 2016

Hi, can you test for this timestamp 1451776013

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