Any Java implementation of RoR's distance_of_time_in_words and time_ago_in_words?

Question

Do you know if it exists a java implementation of distance_of_time_in_words and time_ago_in_words?

For those who don't know, these methods return a human readable description of the time interval between two dates or between a date and now.

By example:

• 3 days
• A week ago
• 2 minutes ago
• More than a year ago

Answer 1

Have you looked at http://code.google.com/p/prettytime/?