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Gives you a nice date sentence from a timestamp
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| function getNiceDateFromTimestamp(timestamp) { | |
| var splits = { | |
| "second": [60 * 1000, 1000], | |
| "minute": [60 * 60 * 1000, 60 * 1000], | |
| "hour": [24 * 60 * 60 * 1000, 60 * 60 * 1000], | |
| "day": [7 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000, 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000], | |
| "week": [4 * 7 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000, 7 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000], | |
| "month": [12 * 4 * 7 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000, 4 * 7 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000], | |
| "year": [-1, 12 * 4 * 7 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000] | |
| } | |
| var sentence = "{number} {timetype} ago"; | |
| var today = new Date(); | |
| var then = new Date(timestamp); | |
| var diff = today.getTime() - then.getTime(); | |
| var number = 0; | |
| var timetype = "n/a"; | |
| for (split in splits) { | |
| splitNum = splits[split][0]; | |
| splitDiv = splits[split][1]; | |
| if (diff < splitNum) { | |
| number = Math.floor(diff/splitDiv); | |
| timetype = split; | |
| break; | |
| } | |
| if (splitNum == -1) { | |
| number = Math.floor(diff/splitDiv); | |
| timetype = split; | |
| } | |
| } | |
| if (number > 1) timetype = timetype + "s"; | |
| return sentence.replace("{number}", number).replace("{timetype}", timetype); | |
| } |
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