http://snippets.dzone.com/posts Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:44:52 GMT DZone Snippets: time code http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/196 This function takes a time and returns a relative date string (it does, however, ignore the time of day). For instance: "yesterday", "in 2 days", "1 day ago", "March 12", or "May 5, 1992". <br /> <br /><code>function relative_date($time) { <br /> $today = strtotime(date('M j, Y')); <br /> $reldays = ($time - $today)/86400; <br /> if ($reldays >= 0 && $reldays < 1) { <br /> return 'today'; <br /> } else if ($reldays >= 1 && $reldays < 2) { <br /> return 'tomorrow'; <br /> } else if ($reldays >= -1 && $reldays < 0) { <br /> return 'yesterday'; <br /> } <br /> if (abs($reldays) < 7) { <br /> if ($reldays > 0) { <br /> $reldays = floor($reldays); <br /> return 'in ' . $reldays . ' day' . ($reldays != 1 ? 's' : ''); <br /> } else { <br /> $reldays = abs(floor($reldays)); <br /> return $reldays . ' day' . ($reldays != 1 ? 's' : '') . ' ago'; <br /> } <br /> } <br /> if (abs($reldays) < 182) { <br /> return date('l, F j',$time ? $time : time()); <br /> } else { <br /> return date('l, F j, Y',$time ? $time : time()); <br /> } <br />}</code> Tue, 19 Apr 2005 14:36:15 GMT http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/196 adrian (Adrian Sampson)