GitHub - pear/Date_HumanDiff: Generate textual time differences that are easily understandable by humans.

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

<?php
require_once 'Date/HumanDiff.php';
$dh = new Date_HumanDiff();
echo $dh->get(time() - 3600);//shows "an hour ago"
echo $dh->get(time() + 3600 * 24, time()); //shows "tomorrow"

?>

Supported languages

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

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: Python