Title: Human time Difference edit?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Human time Difference edit?

 *  [MyraMidnight](https://wordpress.org/support/users/darkstardragon/)
 * (@darkstardragon)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/human-time-difference-edit/)
 * I was just discovering that wordpress actually has a ‘time ago’ (human time difference)
   function. But I wondered if it could be edited in some way.
 * Because once your posts (and comments) become years old, rather than days, then
   its more confusing to view “1268 days ago” instead of simply the date.
 * I wonder if anyone can help me (or tell me how) if its possible to manage to 
   get it to show “weeks ago”, “months ago” or even “years ago”.
 * PS. Im somewhat of a newbie in PHP coding.
 *     ```
       /**
        * Determines the difference between two timestamps.
        *
        * The difference is returned in a human readable format such as "1 hour",
        * "5 mins", "2 days".
        *
        * @since 1.5.0
        *
        * @param int $from Unix timestamp from which the difference begins.
        * @param int $to Optional. Unix timestamp to end the time difference. Default becomes time() if not set.
        * @return string Human readable time difference.
        */
       function human_time_diff( $from, $to = '' ) {
       	if ( empty($to) )
       		$to = time();
       	$diff = (int) abs($to - $from);
       	if ($diff <= 3600) {
       		$mins = round($diff / 60);
       		if ($mins <= 1) {
       			$mins = 1;
       		}
       		/* translators: min=minute */
       		$since = sprintf(_n('%s min', '%s mins', $mins), $mins);
       	} else if (($diff <= 86400) && ($diff > 3600)) {
       		$hours = round($diff / 3600);
       		if ($hours <= 1) {
       			$hours = 1;
       		}
       		$since = sprintf(_n('%s hour', '%s hours', $hours), $hours);
       	} elseif ($diff >= 86400) {
       		$days = round($diff / 86400);
       		if ($days <= 1) {
       			$days = 1;
       		}
       		$since = sprintf(_n('%s day', '%s days', $days), $days);
       	}
       	return $since;
       }
       ```
   

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