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Twitter Date Format
// This formats dates like how Twitter does on their tweets I originally wrote
// this because I did not want to add an external dependency (such as moment) to
// my project for something so insignificant (date format). I couldn't have
// easily generated it on the server side since the dates are relative to the
// end user's browser's timezone (and I specifically wrote this to run on the
// client).
//
// Usage: twitterDateFormat(time)
// time can be anything JS' Date can understand
var twitterDateFormat = (function() {
var months = [
"Jan",
"Feb",
"Mar",
"Apr",
"May",
"Jun",
"Jul",
"Aug",
"Sep",
"Oct",
"Nov",
"Dec"
]
return function(time) {
d = new Date(time);
return (d.getHours() % 12 || 12) + ':' + String("00" + d.getMinutes()).slice(-2) + ' ' + (d.getHours() < 12 ? 'AM' : 'PM') + ' - ' + d.getDate() + ' ' + months[d.getMonth()] + ' ' + d.getFullYear();
}
})()
/**
Testing:
I wrote a little test for this. It only outputs and rerquires a human to verify the tests' outcome
var d = new Date()
for (var i = 0; i < 49; i++) {
var d = new Date(d.getTime() + 1800000);
console.log(twitterDateFormat(d))
}
**/
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