Android Date Format toRelativeDateString(Date value)

Description

to Relative Date String

License

Apache License

Declaration

@SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
    public static String toRelativeDateString(Date value) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
//License from project: Apache License 

import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.TimeZone;

public class Main {
    @SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
    public static String toRelativeDateString(Date value) {
        if (value != null) {
            String result = "";

            Date dateNow = new Date();

            if ((dateNow.getYear() == value.getYear())
                    && (dateNow.getMonth() == value.getMonth())) {
                int daysApart = dateNow.getDate() - value.getDate();

                if (daysApart >= 28) {
                    result = "4 weeks ago";
                } else if (daysApart >= 21) {
                    result = "3 weeks ago";
                } else if (daysApart >= 14) {
                    result = "2 weeks ago";
                } else if (daysApart >= 7) {
                    result = "a week ago";
                } else if (daysApart >= 2) {
                    result = Integer.toString(daysApart) + " days ago";
                } else if (daysApart >= 1) {
                    result = "1 day ago";
                } else {
                    int hoursApart = dateNow.getHours() - value.getHours();
                    if (hoursApart > 1) {
                        result = Integer.toString(hoursApart)
                                + " hours ago";
                    } else {
                        int minsApart = dateNow.getMinutes()
                                - value.getMinutes();

                        if (minsApart > 10) {
                            result = Integer.toString(minsApart)
                                    + " minutes ago";
                        } else {
                            result = "a moment ago";
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                    }
                }
            } else {
                result = toDateTimeString(value);
            }

            return result;
        } else {
            return "";
        }
    }

    public static String toString(Date value, String format) {
        if (value != null) {
            SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat(format);
            dateFormat.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));

            return dateFormat.format(value);
        } else {
            return "";
        }
    }

    public static String toDateTimeString(Date value) {
        if (value != null) {
            SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat(
                    "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
            dateFormat.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));

            return dateFormat.format(value);
        } else {
            return "";
        }
    }
}

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