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Pretty Date (Facebook/Twitter style) - X Month(s)/Week(s)/Day(s)/Hour(s)/Minute(s)/Second(s) ago

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A simple C# function to take a standard DateTime and convert it to a pretty string saying how many seconds/minutes/days/weeks/months ago the date was, it doesn't return an actual date, but that wouldn't be hard to change the month/week/day section to return a formatted date instead of the string currently returned.

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  1. public static string PrettyDate(String TimeSubmitted)
  2. {
  3. 	// accepts standard DateTime: 5/12/2011 2:36:00 PM 
  4. 	// returns: "# month(s)/week(s)/day(s)/hour(s)/minute(s)/second(s)) ago"
  5. 	string prettyDate = TimeSubmitted;
  6.  
  7. 	DateTime SubmittedDate = DateTime.Parse(TimeSubmitted);
  8. 	DateTime Now = DateTime.Now;
  9. 	TimeSpan Diff = Now - SubmittedDate;
  10.  
  11. 	if (Diff.Seconds <= 0)
  12. 	{
  13. 		prettyDate = TimeSubmitted;
  14. 	} 
  15. 	else if (Diff.Days > 30)
  16. 	{
  17. 		prettyDate = Diff.Days / 30 + " month" + (Diff.Days / 30 >= 2 ? "s " : " ") + "ago";
  18. 	}
  19. 	else if (Diff.Days > 7)
  20. 	{
  21. 		prettyDate = Diff.Days / 7 + " week" + (Diff.Days / 7 >= 2 ? "s " : " ") + "ago";
  22. 	}
  23. 	else if (Diff.Days >= 1)
  24. 	{
  25. 		prettyDate = Diff.Days + " day" + (Diff.Days >= 2 ? "s " : " ") + "ago";
  26. 	}
  27. 	else if (Diff.Hours >= 1)
  28. 	{
  29. 		prettyDate = Diff.Hours + " hour" + (Diff.Hours >= 2 ? "s " : " ") + "ago";
  30. 	}
  31. 	else if (Diff.Minutes >= 1)
  32. 	{
  33. 		prettyDate = Diff.Minutes + " minute" + (Diff.Minutes >= 2 ? "s " : " ") + "ago";
  34. 	}
  35. 	else
  36. 	{
  37. 		prettyDate = Diff.Seconds + " second" + (Diff.Seconds >= 2 ? "s " : " ") + "ago";
  38. 	}
  39. 	return prettyDate;
  40. }

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