You may have noticed that certain web applications (for example, certain parts of GMail) display dates in a more human-readable format than simply DD/MM/YYYY.
For example, if I open up a mail item from the 23rd (which happens to be 3 days ago at the time of writing, I'll get the following:
Dec 23 (3 days ago)
I'd like to implement similar logic to this in my own web application.
For example, when dealing with a .NET TimeSpan object, I'd like to convert it to text such as the following:
2 months
3 days
Is there a .NET library capable of doing this already?
If not I might build something basic and open-source it.
I've made a basic start here:
public static class TimeSpanHelpers
{
public static string ToHumanReadableString(
this TimeSpan timeSpan)
{
if (timeSpan.TotalDays > 30)
return (timeSpan.TotalDays / 30) + " month(s)";
if (timeSpan.TotalDays > 7)
return (timeSpan.TotalDays / 7) + " week(s)";
return (timeSpan.TotalDays) + " day(s)";
}
}