Parsing date like twitter

Question

Hi. I've made a little forum and I want parse the date on newest posts like twitter, you know "posted 40 minutes ago ","posted 1 hour ago"... What's the best way ? Thanx.

Answer 1

You are looking for Pretty date in JavaScript, by John Resig.

For example:

prettyDate("2008-01-28T20:24:17Z") // => "2 hours ago"
prettyDate("2008-01-27T22:24:17Z") // => "Yesterday"
prettyDate("2008-01-26T22:24:17Z") // => "2 days ago"
prettyDate("2008-01-14T22:24:17Z") // => "2 weeks ago"
prettyDate("2007-12-15T22:24:17Z") // => undefined