PrettyTime is an OpenSource time formatting library for Java. Completely customizable, it creates human readable, relative timestamps like those seen on Digg, Twitter, and Facebook.
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Parsing ill-formated date-time string in Java
In one sentence: Should I be able to parse "04 Dec 2014 pm 1:58" by PrettyTime?
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I am in need to parse & get proper date format from some ill formatted date-time string. e.g. "04 Dec 2014 pm 1:58". When I do parse this example string,…

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How to describe duration in Android?
I'm writing small app and I need to write duration of sport event in i18n. Im using PrettyTime library for date, but when I attempt to use DateUtils or PrettyTime, I have issues..
For example I want to say that duration is 2 minutes. I need some way…

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Using the pretty time library to show a time in a human readable format in JSF
I happened to use pretty time 1.0.6 to display an interval between two points in time in a human readable format.
There is an in-built JSF converter,
com.ocpsoft.pretty.time.web.jsf.PrettyTimeConverter
but it supports only java.util.Date objects.
I…

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Output "from Now" string in Kotlin using UTC timezone
I'm trying to write a Kotlin function which replicates the behaviour of fromNow in the moment library.
I have the following code:
fun formatDuration(dateTime: String): String {
try {
val parsedDateTime = Instant.parse(dateTime)
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Is there any PrettyTime function in Swift
In my android app I use the following code to get a string that converts a date to readable sentence (se below image). Is there any way to do this is swift 4.2?
private String getDate(String d) {
String datemobile = "";
try {
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how to convert time in miliSec from UTc to local time in miliSec
I'm getting time from a server in milliseconds and trying to convert it in local time.
I want to pass it to my PrettyTime Using Java like this:
PrettyTime p = new PrettyTime();
long millisec = 1522034539973;
String time = p.format(new…

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Format time with PrettyTime library
Processing news RSS feeds and trying to display them with the time elapsed (like 2 min ago, 1 month ago). I'm using PrettyTime library for Android. It works fine for such dates formats
Thu, 04 Jan 2018 11:00:16 +0000 .
However,…

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Java/Grails - PrettyTime NLP Possible to split non date part?
I am using PrettyTime NLP to find dates from a list.
Example
ABC High School March 5, 2016
XYZ High School 08/20/2016 Gym
When I parse using PrettyTimeNLP, it gives me a list of dates in this format.
Sat Aug 20 10:05:27 EDT 2016
My question is if…

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Grails and Angular: GSP plugin tag inside ng-repeat loop
I'm working in a Grails project that uses Angular.
I use a plugin called PrettyPrint in order to have "twitter like" time (i.e. formatting dates like 'moments ago').
I want to use the plugin inside a ng-repeat loop.

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Converting timestamp from parse.com in java
I'm getting my object's createdAt timestamp back from parse.com as 2014-08-01T01:17:56.751Z. I have a class that converts it to relative time.
public static String timeAgo(String time){
PrettyTime mPtime = new PrettyTime();
long timeAgo =…

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