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August 4, 2013 17:11
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parse the twitter date(created_at) into a nice format.
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| function parseTwitterDate(tdate) { | |
| var systemDate = new Date(Date.parse(tdate)); | |
| var userDate = new Date(); | |
| var diff = Math.floor((userDate - systemDate) / 1000); | |
| if (diff <= 1) {return 'just now';} | |
| if (diff < 20) {return diff + ' seconds ago';} | |
| if (diff < 40) {return 'half a minute ago';} | |
| if (diff < 60) {return 'less than a minute ago';} | |
| if (diff <= 90) {return 'one minute ago';} | |
| if (diff <= 3540) {return Math.round(diff / 60) + ' minutes ago';} | |
| if (diff <= 5400) {return '1 hour ago';} | |
| if (diff <= 86400) {return Math.round(diff / 3600) + ' hours ago';} | |
| if (diff <= 129600) {return '1 day ago';} | |
| if (diff < 604800) {return Math.round(diff / 86400) + ' days ago';} | |
| if (diff <= 777600) {return '1 week ago';} | |
| return 'on ' + systemDate; | |
| } |
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thanks