Converting this date into time ago

Question

Looking for a lightweight function that would convert this date as it is displayed "Thu Sep 19 08:43:29 +0000 2013"

Any ideas?

You need to provide more information than this. For example: What format do you want the "time ago" in? What have you attempted so far to achieve this? (StackOverflow isn't here to do you work for you.) — John Parker, Sep 19 '13 at 09:50

score 7 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 03 '16 at 10:46

Time ago function

function time_ago($date) {
    if (empty($date)) {
        return "No date provided";
    }
    $periods = array("second", "minute", "hour", "day", "week", "month", "year", "decade");
    $lengths = array("60", "60", "24", "7", "4.35", "12", "10");
    $now = time();
    $unix_date = strtotime($date);
// check validity of date
    if (empty($unix_date)) {
        return "Bad date";
    }
// is it future date or past date
    if ($now > $unix_date) {
        $difference = $now - $unix_date;
        $tense = "ago";
    } else {
        $difference = $unix_date - $now;
        $tense = "from now";
    }
    for ($j = 0; $difference >= $lengths[$j] && $j < count($lengths) - 1; $j++) {
        $difference /= $lengths[$j];
    }
    $difference = round($difference);
    if ($difference != 1) {
        $periods[$j].= "s";
    }
    return "$difference $periods[$j] {$tense}";
}

To use this function, simply call:

<?php echo time_ago($mydate); ?>

source

If you're going to lift code from an external source (http://www.phpdevtips.com/2011/06/the-php-time-ago-function/) at least credit that source. — John Parker, Sep 19 '13 at 09:52

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 19 '13 at 09:58

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You can use the handy DateTime class :

$oDate = new DateTime('Thu Sep 19 08:43:29 +0000 2013');
$oNow = new DateTime();
$oInterval = $oDate->diff($oNow);
echo $oInterval->format('%R%a days');

This will display the difference between now and the date, in days :

+0 days

answered Sep 19 '13 at 09:58

Nassim

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Perfect! Thank you. – SGhosh Jan 11 '18 at 12:48

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:53

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Use example :

echo time_elapsed_string('Thu Sep 19 08:43:29 +0000 2013');
echo time_elapsed_string('Thu Sep 19 08:43:29 +0000 2013', true);

Output :

1 hour ago
1 hour, 35 minutes, 7 seconds ago

Link to the function.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:53

Community

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answered Sep 19 '13 at 10:17

Glavić

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Converting this date into time ago

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Use example :

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