Relative Dates

[Wellwisher]

You want *ALL* dates to be relative?

@Kindred, this looks sexy. . This works for me folks. Thank you Kindred, this will help a lot of lost souls. 

I still want to introduce the "on-hover tool tip" feature which reveals the full date & time. Anyway we can add this? I can then work out the .JS and the .CSS required to achieve it.

[Kindred]

that becomes more difficult --- in that the function would have to be modified to output two values (the relative and the absolute) *AND* every location which calls the timeformat function would have to be modified to accept that changed output.

[Wellwisher]

that becomes more difficult --- in that the function would have to be modified to output two values (the relative and the absolute) *AND* every location which calls the timeformat function would have to be modified to accept that changed output.

Thanks for heads-up Kindred, appreciate the helpful advice. I might get a freelancer to take a look into this at some point. If I do, I will share the code here or in the tips & tricks section.   

[Kindred]

Looking into this a little bit more -- my changes above will also have a possibly unintended side-effect -- it will also affect the display of the event in messages with linked calendar events as well as Polls and "edited by" notations...

[Wellwisher]

Looking into this a little bit more -- my changes above will also have a possibly unintended side-effect -- it will also affect the display of the event in messages with linked calendar events as well as Polls and "edited by" notations...

No worries, thanks for letting me know Kindred.

[Senkusha]

You want *ALL* dates to be relative?



Instead of doing the Subs.php and modifications.english.php edits that this mod originally suggested...
comment out or delete these lines.

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// Today and Yesterday?
if ($modSettings['todayMod'] >= 1 && $show_today === true)
{
// Get the current time.
$nowtime = forum_time();

$then = @getdate($time);
$now = @getdate($nowtime);

// Try to make something of a time format string...
$s = strpos($user_info['time_format'], '%S') === false ? '' : ':%S';
if (strpos($user_info['time_format'], '%H') === false && strpos($user_info['time_format'], '%T') === false)
{
$h = strpos($user_info['time_format'], '%l') === false ? '%I' : '%l';
$today_fmt = $h . ':%M' . $s . ' %p';
}
else
$today_fmt = '%H:%M' . $s;

// Same day of the year, same year.... Today!
if ($then['yday'] == $now['yday'] && $then['year'] == $now['year'])
return $txt['today'] . timeformat($log_time, $today_fmt, $offset_type);

// Day-of-year is one less and same year, or it's the first of the year and that's the last of the year...
if ($modSettings['todayMod'] == '2' && (($then['yday'] == $now['yday'] - 1 && $then['year'] == $now['year']) || ($now['yday'] == 0 && $then['year'] == $now['year'] - 1) && $then['mon'] == 12 && $then['mday'] == 31))
return $txt['yesterday'] . timeformat($log_time, $today_fmt, $offset_type);
}


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$nowtime = forum_time(); 
$retVal = time_ago($nowtime, $time);

return $retVal;


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function time_ago($now, $then)
    {
    global $txt;
 
        if(!is_numeric($then))
            $then = strtotime($then);

        $periods_sing = array($txt['rel_second'], $txt['rel_minute'], $txt['rel_hour'], $txt['rel_day'], $txt['rel_week'], $txt['rel_month'], $txt['rel_year'], $txt['rel_age']);
        $periods_plur = array($txt['rel_seconds'], $txt['rel_minutes'], $txt['rel_hours'], $txt['rel_days'], $txt['rel_weeks'], $txt['rel_months'], $txt['rel_years'], $txt['rel_ages']);
        $lengths = array("60","60","24","7","4.35","12","100");

        $difference = $now - $then;
        if ($difference <= 10 && $difference >= 0)
            return $tense = $txt['just_now'];
        elseif($difference > 0)
            $tense = $txt['ago'];
        elseif($difference < 0)
            $tense = $txt['later'];

        for($j = 0; $difference >= $lengths[$j] && $j < count($lengths)-1; $j++) {
            $difference /= $lengths[$j];
        }

        $difference = round($difference);

        if ($difference > 1)
          $period = $periods_plur[$j];
        else
          $period = $periods_sing[$j];

        return "{$difference} {$period} {$tense} ";
    }


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$txt['just_now'] = 'just now';
$txt['ago'] = 'ago';
$txt['later'] = 'later';
$txt['rel_second'] = 'second';
$txt['rel_minute'] = 'minute';
$txt['rel_hour'] = 'hour';
$txt['rel_day'] = 'day';
$txt['rel_week'] = 'week';
$txt['rel_month'] = 'month';
$txt['rel_year'] = 'year';
$txt['rel_age'] = 'age';
$txt['rel_seconds'] = 'seconds';
$txt['rel_minutes'] = 'minutes';
$txt['rel_hours'] = 'hours';
$txt['rel_days'] = 'days';
$txt['rel_weeks'] = 'weeks';
$txt['rel_months'] = 'months';
$txt['rel_years'] = 'years';
$txt['rel_ages'] = 'ages';
$txt['relative_today'] = 'All times are Relative';



(Edit -- do note that my code changes above will install the relative dates/times REGARDLESS of the setting in the admin. The code I put together was a hack to REPLACE, not add an option, to the current code)

Is this the code that I would need to use to enable this MOD to work with 2.1.x?

[Pipke]

Relative Time Formats mod for smf 2.1

[Senkusha]

Thank you!  I don't know why this didn't come up with I tried looking for it.

[live627]

Is this the code that I would need to use to enable this MOD to work with 2.1.x?

No. Some of this code does not exist in 2.1.