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Timestamp to a plain words description of elapsed delta (great for Twitter timestamps)
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// Adapted from jQuery TimeAgo plugin: | |
// https://github.com/rmm5t/jquery-timeago/blob/master/jquery.timeago.js | |
// Update, check out performance: http://jsperf.com/twitter-relative-time-parsing | |
function timetowords(timestamp) { | |
var words = { | |
"seconds": "less than a minute", | |
"minute": "about a minute", | |
"minutes": "%d minutes", | |
"hour": "about an hour", | |
"hours": "about %d hours", | |
"day": "a day", | |
"days": "%d days", | |
"month": "about a month", | |
"months": "%d months", | |
"year": "about a year", | |
"years": "%d years" | |
}, | |
deltaMilliseconds = (new Date().getTime() - timestamp), | |
seconds = deltaMilliseconds / 1000, | |
minutes = seconds / 60, | |
hours = minutes / 60, | |
days = hours / 24, | |
years = days / 365; | |
return seconds < 45 && words.seconds.replace(/%d/i,Math.round(seconds)) || | |
seconds < 90 && words.minute.replace(/%d/i, 1) || | |
minutes < 45 && words.minutes.replace(/%d/i, Math.round(minutes)) || | |
minutes < 90 && words.hour.replace(/%d/i, 1) || | |
hours < 24 && words.hours.replace(/%d/i, Math.round(hours)) || | |
hours < 48 && words.day.replace(/%d/i, 1) || | |
days < 30 && words.days.replace(/%d/i, Math.floor(days)) || | |
days < 60 && words.month.replace(/%d/i, 1) || | |
days < 365 && words.months.replace(/%d/i, Math.floor(days / 30)) || | |
years < 2 && words.year.replace(/%d/i, 1) || | |
words.years.replace(/%d/i, Math.floor(years)); | |
} |
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