Natural time since i18n

gistfile1.py

# Natural time since template tag i18n
from django import template
from django.utils.encoding import force_unicode
from django.utils.translation import ungettext, ugettext as _

register = template.Library()

# from http://anandnalya.com/2009/05/20/humanizing-the-time-difference-in-django/
MOMENT = 60    # duration in seconds within which the time difference
                # will be rendered as 'a moment ago'
@register.filter
def natural_timesince(value):
    """Finds the difference between the datetime value given and now()
    and returns appropriate humanize form."""

    if isinstance(value, datetime.datetime):
        delta = datetime.datetime.now() - value
        if delta.days > 6:
            return value.strftime("%b %d") # May 15
        if delta.days > 1:
            return value.strftime("%A") # Wednesday
        elif delta.days == 1:
            return _(u"yesterday") # yesterday
        elif delta.seconds > 3600:
            hours = delta.seconds / 3600
            return force_unicode(ungettext(u"%(hours)d hour ago", "%(hours)d hours ago", hours) % {'hours': hours})
        elif delta.seconds > MOMENT:
            minutes = delta.seconds/60
            return force_unicode(ungettext(u"%(minutes)d minute ago", u"%(minutes)d minutes ago", minutes) % {
                    'minutes': minutes})
        else:
            return force_unicode(_(u"a moment ago"))
        return template.defaultfilters.date(value)
    else:
        return str(value)

With Django 1.4 and time zone support you need to replace

with

where 'timezone' is imported with