Pretty Dates Output - Node.js Date

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Pretty Dates Output

Demo Code


/***//from  w  ww.j  a  va 2 s .  c  o  m
|Name:|PrettyDatesPlugin|
|Description:|Provides a new date format ('pppp') that displays times such as '2 days ago'|
|Version:|1.0a|
|Date:|27-Jun-2011|
|Source:|http://mptw.tiddlyspot.com/#PrettyDatesPlugin|
|Author:|Simon Baird <simon.baird@gmail.com>|
|License:|http://mptw.tiddlyspot.com/#TheBSDLicense|
!!Notes
* If you want to you can rename this plugin. :) Some suggestions: LastUpdatedPlugin, RelativeDatesPlugin, SmartDatesPlugin, SexyDatesPlugin.
* Inspired by http://ejohn.org/files/pretty.js
***/
//{{{
Date.prototype.prettyDate = function() {
  var diff = (((new Date()).getTime() - this.getTime()) / 1000);
  var day_diff = Math.floor(diff / 86400);

  if (isNaN(day_diff))      return "";
  else if (diff < 0)        return "in the future";
  else if (diff < 60)       return "just now";
  else if (diff < 120)      return "1 minute ago";
  else if (diff < 3600)     return Math.floor(diff/60) + " minutes ago";
  else if (diff < 7200)     return "1 hour ago";
  else if (diff < 86400)    return Math.floor(diff/3600) + " hours ago";
  else if (day_diff == 1)   return "Yesterday";
  else if (day_diff < 7)    return day_diff + " days ago";
  else if (day_diff < 14)   return  "a week ago";
  else if (day_diff < 31)   return Math.ceil(day_diff/7) + " weeks ago";
  else if (day_diff < 62)   return "a month ago";
  else if (day_diff < 365)  return "about " + Math.ceil(day_diff/31) + " months ago";
  else if (day_diff < 730)  return "a year ago";
  else                      return Math.ceil(day_diff/365) + " years ago";
}

Date.prototype.formatString_orig_mptw = Date.prototype.formatString;

Date.prototype.formatString = function(template) {
  return this.formatString_orig_mptw(template).replace(/pppp/,this.prettyDate());
}

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