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timestamp - SitePoint Forums — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:45:38 +0000

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By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 03:29:30 +0000

I got errors when I first tried this. But if you add this to the top line of the function, it seemed to work.

$timestamp = strtotime($timestamp); // Timestamp is coming from MySQL and needs converted first!

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 06:41:13 +0000

Well that was a failure. can’t seem to post the lt/gt signs correctly. Might as well delete all my comments.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 06:00:05 +0000

This is the objective-c way: NSDate *itemDate = [NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSince1970:unixTimestamp]; NSTimeInterval difference = [[NSDate date] timeIntervalSinceDate:itemDate]; NSArray *periods = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"second", @"minute", @"hour", @"day", @"week", @"month", @"year", @"decade", nil]; float lengths[] = {60.0f, 60.0f, 24.0f, 7.0f, 4.35f, 12.0f, 10.0f}; NSString *ending = @"ago"; if (difference = lengths[j] && j < 7) { difference /= lengths[j]; j++; } difference = round(difference); NSString *period = (NSString*)[periods objectAtIndex:j]; return [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%i %@%@ %@", (int)difference, period, (difference!=1?@"s":@""), ending];

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 05:56:03 +0000

Here is the objective-C way:

NSDate *itemDate = [NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSince1970:unixTimestamp];
NSTimeInterval difference = [[NSDate date] timeIntervalSinceDate:itemDate];

NSArray *periods = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"second", @"minute", @"hour", @"day", @"week", @"month", @"year", @"decade", nil];
float lengths[] = {60.0f, 60.0f, 24.0f, 7.0f, 4.35f, 12.0f, 10.0f};

NSString *ending = @”ago”;
if (difference = lengths[j] && j < {
difference /= lengths[j];
j++;
} difference = round(difference);

NSString *period = (NSString*)[periods objectAtIndex:j];
return [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%i %@%@ %@", (int)difference, period, (difference!=1?@"s":@""), ending];

By: jalopezsuarez

jalopezsuarez — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:08:19 +0000

This version is better, because the posted one has some problems with decades. This version is also translated to SPANISH HUMAN READABLE DATE, which is almost the same as ENGLISH VERSION.

function relativeTime($timestamp){
$difference = time() – $timestamp;
$periods = array(“segundo”, “minuto”, “hora”, “día”, “semana”, “mes”, “año”, “década”);
$lengths = array(“60″,”60″,”24″,”7″,”4.35″,”12″,”10″);

if ($difference > 0) { // this was in the past
$starting = “Hace”;
} else { // this was in the future
$difference = -$difference;
$starting = “Falta”;
}

$j = 0;
while ($difference >= $lengths[$j] && $j < count($lengths)) {
$difference /= $lengths[$j];
$j++;
}

$difference = round($difference);
if($difference != 1) $periods[$j].= ($periods[$j]!="mes")?"s":"es";
$text = "$starting $difference $periods[$j]";
return $text;
}

By: Raju

Raju — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 22:51:32 +0000

Hello,
Thanks for this. today I have used it. great thing indeed.

By: DanielK

DanielK — Tue, 26 May 2009 21:54:07 +0000

Thanks for this post – nice one, gave me the needed inspiration for a function I was writing.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:51:58 +0000

Just what I was looking for. Thanks for saving me some work!