davidreuss

var DateHelper = {
  // Takes the format of "Jan 15, 2007 15:45:00 GMT" and converts it to a relative time
  // Ruby strftime: %b %d, %Y %H:%M:%S GMT
  time_ago_in_words_with_parsing: function(from) {
    var date = new Date; 
    date.setTime(Date.parse(from));
    return this.time_ago_in_words(date);
  },
  
  time_ago_in_words: function(from) {