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+1  Q: 

Javascript converting DateTime to "______ seconds/minutes/hours/months ago"

The Twitter API returns time stamps of the form:

"Sat, 25 Jul 2009 04:54:42 +0000"

What's the best way to convert a time stamp of this form to "____ seconds/minutes/hours/months ago" depending on the time zone?

Thanks

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Javascript Pretty Date by John Resig

Jon Galloway  2009-07-25 05:04:02
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See this question http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11/how-do-i-calculate-relative-time

Ken Browning  2009-07-25 05:04:45
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I do this on my site often but I use PHP not javascript for the conversion

jasondavis  2009-07-25 05:06:37

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