http://snippets.dzone.com/posts Sun, 12 Oct 2008 20:00:31 GMT DZone Snippets: time code http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/487 Pass this method a Date object, a DateTime object, or a string of a date (like 7/6/05) and it will return a response that looks like 'yesterday', 'today', 'tomorrow', '12 days ago', 'in 4 days', 'Monday, January 5', or 'Tuesday, December 15, 2004'. <br /> <br />Inspired by adrian's <a href="http://www.bigbold.com/snippets/posts/show/196">Relative date</a> PHP snippet. <br /> <br /><code>def rel_date(date) <br /> date = Date.parse(date, true) unless /Date.*/ =~ date.class.to_s <br /> days = (date - Date.today).to_i <br /> <br /> return 'today' if days >= 0 and days < 1 <br /> return 'tomorrow' if days >= 1 and days < 2 <br /> return 'yesterday' if days >= -1 and days < 0 <br /> <br /> return "in #{days} days" if days.abs < 60 and days > 0 <br /> return "#{days.abs} days ago" if days.abs < 60 and days < 0 <br /> <br /> return date.strftime('%A, %B %e') if days.abs < 182 <br /> return date.strftime('%A, %B %e, %Y') <br />end</code> Thu, 21 Jul 2005 00:34:23 GMT http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/487 ozmm ()