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1. sahaskatta
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I checked out the native human_time_diff function in WP, but I need some help.

   The example on that page is the following:
   <?php echo human_time_diff(get_the_time('U'), current_time('timestamp')) . ' ago'; ?>

   It shows the timestamp in relative to "days". How can I tweak it to automatically switch between the following pseudocode:

   if time < 1 hour
   echo minutes
   elseif time < 1 day
   echo hours
   elseif time < 7 days
   echo days
   elseif time < 30 days
   echo weeks
   elseif time < 365 days
   echo months
   elseif time >- 365 days
   echo years

   I'm aware that there are plugins, but I'm trying to keep bloat minimal by writing a simple function that I can throw into functions.php. Could someone please give me a example of how to tweak that?

2. Alex Mills (Viper007Bond)
   Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   There's a more powerful version of human_time_diff() sitting on Trac:

   http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/9272
   http://core.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/9272/9272.patch

   Here it is in non-patch form:

   http://wordpress.pastebin.com/11Rr8Sn4

   Just copy/paste that into functions.php and rename the function to something else to avoid colliding with the original.

3. sahaskatta
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Just to make things simpler for those looking for help, here's how I managed to get it to work. (Thanks to Alex)

   1) Grab the code from the pastebin link above.
   2) Paste it into functions.php
   3) Rename the function from human_time_diff to relative_time
   4) Look for the place you normally use <?php the_time(); ?>
   5) Replace it with <?php echo relative_time(get_the_time('U'), current_time('timestamp')) . ' ago'; ?>

   This will automatically produce nearly perfect results for "time ago" dates taking seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years into account.

4. rhythmdoctor
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   Thank you - This was perfect. Was looking for an answer on this for days :)

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