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PrettyDate.js – dates in a "pretty" way
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/* | |
* JavaScript Pretty Date | |
* Copyright (c) 2008 John Resig (jquery.com) | |
* Licensed under the MIT license. | |
* http://ejohn.org/files/pretty.js | |
*/ | |
// Takes an ISO time and returns a string representing how | |
// long ago the date represents. | |
function prettyDate(time){ | |
var date = new Date((time || "").replace(/-/g,"/").replace(/[TZ]/g," ")), | |
diff = (((new Date()).getTime() - date.getTime()) / 1000), | |
day_diff = Math.floor(diff / 86400); | |
if ( isNaN(day_diff) || day_diff < 0 || day_diff >= 31 ) | |
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"; | |
} | |
// 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 ); | |
}); | |
}; |
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A method to format old JavaScript dates in a "pretty" way. For example "2008-01-28T20:24:17Z" becomes "2 hours ago". Also include a .prettyDate() jQuery plugin, for convenience. Here's some more examples: | |
prettyDate("2008-01-28T20:24:17Z") // => "2 hours ago" | |
prettyDate("2008-01-27T22:24:17Z") // => "Yesterday" | |
prettyDate("2008-01-26T22:24:17Z") // => "2 days ago" | |
prettyDate("2008-01-14T22:24:17Z") // => "2 weeks ago" | |
prettyDate("2007-12-15T22:24:17Z") // => undefined |
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