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Created February 5, 2009 18:36 — forked from rails/gist:58761
fuzzy timestamps, time ago in words
var DateHelper = {
// Takes the format of "Jan 15, 2007 15:45:00 GMT" and converts it to a relative time
// Ruby strftime: %b %d, %Y %H:%M:%S GMT
time_ago_in_words_with_parsing: function(from) {
var date = new Date;
date.setTime(Date.parse(from));
return this.time_ago_in_words(date);
},
time_ago_in_words: function(from) {