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Relative Time from Timestamp

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Whilst building an AS3 twitter widget i developed this code to change the timestamp formatted like this: Sun Oct 24 20:07:33 +0000 2010 to something much more usable such as '43 minutes ago' or 'about 4 days ago'

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  1. //###############################
  2. //Usage:
  3. var myRelativeTime:String = timestampToRelative("Sun Oct 24 20:07:33 +0000 2010");
  4. //returns a string
  5. //###############################
  6.  
  7. function timestampToRelative(timestamp:String):String {
  8. 	//--Parse the timestamp as a Date object--\\
  9. 	var pastDate:Date = new Date(timestamp);
  10. 	//--Get the current data in the same format--\\
  11. 	var currentDate:Date = new Date();
  12. 	//--seconds inbetween the current date and the past date--\\
  13. 	var secondDiff:Number = (currentDate.getTime() - pastDate.getTime())/1000;
  14.  
  15. 	//--Return the relative equavalent time--\\
  16. 	switch (true) {
  17. 		case secondDiff < 60 :
  18. 			return int(secondDiff) + ' seconds ago';
  19. 			break;
  20. 		case secondDiff < 120 :
  21. 			return 'About a minute ago';
  22. 			break;
  23. 		case secondDiff < 3600 :
  24. 			return int(secondDiff / 60) + ' minutes ago';
  25. 			break;
  26. 		case secondDiff < 7200 :
  27. 			return 'About an hour ago';
  28. 			break;
  29. 		case secondDiff < 86400 :
  30. 			return 'About ' + int(secondDiff / 3600) + ' hours ago';
  31. 			break;
  32. 		case secondDiff < 172800 :
  33. 			return 'Yesterday';
  34. 			break;
  35. 		default :
  36. 			return int(secondDiff / 86400) + ' days ago';
  37. 			break;
  38. 	}
  39. }

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