A "time ago", "time since", "relative date", or "fuzzy date" category for NSDate and iOS, Objective-C, Cocoa Touch, iPhone, iPad

hi @kevinlawler is there any reason why the latest version isn't pushed/published? so we can stop doing to get the latest stable version :)

 pod 'NSDate+TimeAgo', :git => 'https://github.com/kevinlawler/NSDate-TimeAgo'

Hi guys,

I'm using the NSDate-TimeAgo pod and the bundle was added to copy bundle resources on build phases but the translation is not working. Do you know if I need to set anything else? It would be great if you guys can add the how-to on readme file.

Thanks

My application is not supporting some of the locales provided by your pod. If you use a bundle instead, that will not affect my project's setting. For example, if I set my device to spanish, the app will not fallback to my default locale because it will found your localization file.

Looking at the code, I see that the library returns the string "yesterday" if the difference in time between the given date and now is more than 24 hours ago but less than 2*24 hours ago. Saying "yesterday" is wrong because the given date could be actually the day before yesterday. For instance:

Date: Monday 11am Now: Wednesday 10am difference : 1day and 23hours => returns "Yesterday", but "Yesterday" here was Tuesday.

I suggest using "calendar days" instead of just plain days (=24 hours) to calculate the difference. Yesterday will have its true meaning then.

For an example on how to do this, see the second answer: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4739483/number-of-days-between-two-nsdates

By the way, same problem with "last month" / "last year" => months are not always 31 days long, and years are not 365.25 days long.

Hi there,

Thanks for this piece of code, it's very useful.

I'd like to get strings in a non-capitalized way. If we take some output: "A moment ago", "30 seconds ago", "5 minutes ago", "Yesterday", "Last Month", "2 Years Ago", and so on

some have capitalized words, other not.

I want to create a full sentence out of the output date string like:- "Somebody posted a document 3 hours ago"

if it's now been one day since the string is now: "Somebody posted a document Yesterday"

the capital letter 'Y' looks odd in this sentence.

For now I just lowercase everything that comes out of your library, but it's not very good as in some languages (cf. translations for your library) this transformation might change letters within words. Could you instead output everything in lowercase? If we need capitalization of words/sentences it's then quite easy to do so with NSString.

Hope I made sense. Cheers.

Hi.

Since I am new to ios development, it might sounds silly but need to ask about it. I'd like to add new localized strings for Korean developers. But I couldn't find solution to add new file to NSDateTimeAgo.bundle. I, of course, need the time-ago method for the current project. Please let me know how to add new locazlied string so that I can make pull request to enrich this fascinating category.

Thanks.

As discussed in issue #15, added two new methods that can be used as drop-in replacement to timeAgo: dateTimeAgo and dateTimeUntilNow. See header file for more details about those methods.

Also refactored some code in timeAgo to simplify it.

By changing a few strings the library supports Time Until too.

E.g. "A minute ago" becomes "In a minute" or "4 days ago" becomes "In 4 days"

It does mean a few more LocalizedStrings though.

When you use this category as a pod timeAgo method returns null, when adding the category directly to my main project it works fine.

I think it might be because the resources are not added to the mainBundle when they are in cocoapod project, so NSLocalizedStringFromTableInBundle is unable to read translated values

let dateFormatter: NSDateFormatter = NSDateFormatter() dateFormatter.locale = NSLocale(localeIdentifier: "en_US_POSIX") dateFormatter.timeZone = NSTimeZone(abbreviation: "UTC") dateFormatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSX" if let date = dateFormatter.dateFromString(dateString) { // I get valid a NSDate object }

Originally posted by @khakha010 in https://github.com/kevinlawler/NSDate-TimeAgo/issues/90#issuecomment-480986436

Hi,

I am willing to add a new language. I have already cloned the repository. I have seen that language supports are in a bundle named NSDateTimeAgo.bundle. But i have a added a new folder inside the bundle NSDateTimeAgo.bundle. Renamed the folder to bn.lproj, but after that i was unable to add any file inside that newly created directory.

It would be great if you share that how a language support can be added in the NSDateTimeAgo.bundle.

Here i have added a gif which demonstrating that, how i attempted this.

Thanks in Advance.

The Slovak strings file (in DateTools.bundle - sk.lproj) should be named "DateTools.strings" like in any other lproj. Otherwise the Slovak translations aren't working.