https://github.com/pear/date_humandiff

Generate textual time differences that are easily understandable by humans.
https://github.com/pear/date_humandiff

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Generate textual time differences that are easily understandable by humans.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/pear/date_humandiff
• Owner: pear
• Created: 2012-04-17T11:10:33.000Z (about 14 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2019-10-18T04:24:44.000Z (over 6 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-03-24T04:01:43.023Z (over 1 year ago)
• Topics: date, library, php, time
• Language: PHP
• Homepage:
• Size: 46.9 KB
• Stars: 25
• Watchers: 8
• Forks: 9
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.rst

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Date_HumanDiff

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Generate textual time differences that are easily understandable by humans.

The class supports minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and years.

Examples:

- 5 seconds ago -> `just now`

- 65 seconds ago -> `a minute ago`

- 120 seconds ago -> `2 minutes ago`

- `a week ago`

- `3 weeks ago`

- `a month ago`

- `8 months ago`

- `a year ago`

- `5 years ago`

Usage

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::

  get(time() - 3600);//shows "an hour ago"

  echo $dh->get(time() + 3600 * 24, time()); //shows "tomorrow"

  ?>

Supported languages

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- German

- English

- Greek

- Persian

- Russian

Use a language with ``setLocale()``::

    $dh = new Date_HumanDiff();

    $dh->setLocale('de');

    echo $dh->get(time() - 60 * 5) . "\n"; //shows "vor 5 Minuten"

Other libraries

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https://github.com/azer/relative-date/blob/master/lib/relative-date.js

 Javascript; library that's been used as base for Date_HumanDiff

https://github.com/rmm5t/jquery-timeago

 Javascript; with localization options

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/py-pretty

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