Changing time format

Question

So, I have the following php:

<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID,'dfd_ModificationTimestamp',true); ?>

It outputs dates as the following: 13/06/2015 11:02:18

I am not sure how to change it to "3 days ago" or "2 month ago" etc.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

See examples in http://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.diff.php — Emiliano Sangoi, Jun 25 '15 at 20:00
See a similar post: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1416697/converting-timestamp-to-time-ago-in-php-e-g-1-day-ago-2-days-ago — Emiliano Sangoi, Jun 25 '15 at 20:51

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 25 '15 at 20:49

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I think you are looking for the wordpress function human_time_diff

Example:

//Get your date
$date = get_post_meta($post->ID,'dfd_ModificationTimestamp',true);

//Convert it to a unix time stamp
$timestamp = strtotime($date);

//Print a nice string showing how long ago that was
echo human_time_diff( $timestamp, current_time('timestamp') ) . ' ago';

answered Jun 25 '15 at 20:49

Mikk3lRo

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I had no idea that existed! Kudos! – rob_was_taken Jun 25 '15 at 20:55

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 25 '15 at 20:46

Use this:

$dateString = get_post_meta($post->ID,'dfd_ModificationTimestamp',true);
/* @var \DateTime $date */
$date = DateTime::createFromFormat('d/m/Y H:i:s', $dateString);

Now $date is DateTime object. You can modify it as you wish.

For example, you need 3 days ago from your date value(13/06/2015 11:02:18)

$date->modify('-3 days'); // $date becomes 10/06/2015 11:02:18

or if you need 2 months ago from your date value(13/06/2015 11:02:18)

$date->modify('-2 months'); // $date becomes 13/04/2015 11:02:18

To print $date value after modify, use:

echo $date->format('d/m/Y H:i:s');

See http://php.net/manual/en/class.datetime.php for more custom information.

lol - one of us clearly misunderstood, but I'm actually not sure who :p — Mikk3lRo, Jun 25 '15 at 20:51

score 1 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:52

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I know you tagged this PHP but you can do this with javascript using the timeago plugin.

<abbr class="timeago" title="2008-07-17T09:24:17Z">July 17, 2008</abbr>

is converted into

<abbr class="timeago" title="July 17, 2008">7 years ago</abbr>

You need to format the time in ISO_8601 format too, something like this would do it:

echo (new DateTime('17 Oct 2008'))->format('c');

Sources:

http://timeago.yarp.com/

How to display a date as iso 8601 format with PHP

edited May 23 '17 at 11:52

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answered Jun 25 '15 at 20:54

rob_was_taken

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Thank you =) I will test it out and see if it works for my site. =) – Steve Kim Jun 25 '15 at 20:58
I would look at Mikk3lRo's answer first - I didn't realise WordPress had a ready made function for this :) – rob_was_taken Jun 25 '15 at 20:59

Changing time format

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