Description

This is an iOS, Objective-C, Cocoa Touch, iPhone, iPad category for NSDate. It gives NSDate the ability to report times like "A moment ago", "30 seconds ago", "5 minutes ago", "Yesterday", "Last month", "2 years ago", and so on.

This functionality has variously been referred to as a "time ago", "time since", "relative date", or "fuzzy date" feature.

NSDate+TimeAgo currently supports the following languages:

• en (English)
• es (Spanish)
• zh_Hans (Chinese Simplified)
• zh_Hant (Chinese Traditional)
• pt_BR (Brazilian Portuguese)
• fr (French)
• it (Italian)
• ru (Russian)
• de (German)
• nl (Dutch)
• hu (Hungarian)
• fi (Finnish)
• ja (Japanese)
• vi (Vietnamese)
• ro (Romanian)
• da (Danish)
• cs (Czech)
• nb (Norwegian)
• lv (Latvian)
• tr (Turkish)

If you know a language not listed here, please consider submitting a translation. Localization codes by language.

Use

1. Add the files to your project - manually or via Cocoapods (pod 'NSDate+TimeAgo')
2. Import the header using #import "NSDate+TimeAgo.h"
3. Call the timeAgo method in the following way:

NSDate *date = [[NSDate alloc] initWithTimeIntervalSince1970:0]
NSString *ago = [date timeAgo];
NSLog(@"Output is: \"%@\"", ago);
2011-11-12 17:19:25.608 Proj[0:0] Output is: "41 years ago"

3 other methods are available:

• dateTimeAgo: returns times with only strings of the type: "{value} {unit} ago"
• dateTimeUntilNow: returns only "yesterday" / "this morning" / "last week" / "this month" -- less precise than dateTimeAgo but more natural
• timeLeft: returns a string stating how much time is remaining until the date occurs. ex: "3 days left". There is also a method that will allow a custom ending such as "days remaining"

Those three methods can be interchanged as they have the same signature.

Future Directions

Would be nice to

1. add customization options (e.g., should it report seconds or just "a minute ago")
2. add string customization
3. have more localizations
4. make dateTimeUntilNow more precise: instead of "Last week" use "Last Friday", "Last Monday" etc.
5. other

License

Released under ISC (similar to 2-clause BSD)

http://wikipedia.org/wiki/ISC_license

Credits

Originally based on code Christopher Pickslay posted to Forrst. Used with permission. http://twitter.com/cpickslay

Ramon Torres began support for internationalization/localization. Added es strings. http://rtorres.me/

Dennis Zhuang added zh_Hans Chinese Simplified strings. http://fnil.net/

Mozart Petter added pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese strings. http://www.mozartpetter.com/

Stéphane Gerardot added fr French strings.

Marco Sanson added it Italian strings. http://marcosanson.tumblr.com/

Almas Adilbek added ru Russian strings. Extended logic to support Russian idioms. http://mixdesign.kz/

Mallox51 added de German strings. https://github.com/Mallox51

Tieme van Veen added nl Dutch strings. http://www.tiemevanveen.nl

Árpád Goretity added hu Hungarian strings. http://apaczai.elte.hu/~13akga/

Anajavi added fi Finnish strings. https://github.com/anajavi

Tonydyb added ja Japanese strings.

Vinhnx added vi Vietnamese strings. http://vinhnx.github.io/

Ronail added zh_Hant Traditional Chinese strings. https://github.com/ronail

SorinAntohi added ro Romanian strings. https://github.com/SorinAntohi

spookd added da Danish strings. https://github.com/spookd

Barrett Jacobsen added cs Czech strings. https://github.com/barrettj

Dmitry Shmidt added nb Norwegian strings. https://github.com/shmidt

Martins Rudens added lv Latvian strings. https://github.com/rudensm

Osman Saral added tr Turkish strings. https://github.com/osrl

Matthew Knippen added time left method. https://github.com/mknippen