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[vz_elapsedtime]

Description

Link: [vz_elapsedtime]

Author: Pier Kuipers

Category: Date

Version: 8.5.x

License: Public Domain

Posted: Jul. 25, 2008

Updated: Jul. 25, 2008

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Given a date and optional time, this tag will return a string displaying its offset compared to the current time in the format "[n] [units] ago".

Parameters

-datetime

date, required

Sample Usage

[vz_elapsedtime(field('creation_date'))]
-> '23 minutes ago'
-> '5 days ago'
-> '1 month ago'

If the tag would return "1 day ago", it changes the output to
-> 'yesterday'

Source Code

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if(!lasso_tagexists('vz_elapsedtime'));
	define_tag('elapsedtime',
		-description='given a date and optional time, this tag will return a string displaying its offset compared to the current time in the format "[n] [units] ago".',
		-namespace='vz_',
		-required='datetime',
		-Priority='Replace');
		local('timenow'=date);
		local('output'=string);
		local('timespans'=(array('year', 'month', 'week', 'day', 'hour', 'minute', 'second')));
		iterate(#timespans, local('tmp'));
			local('diff'=(date_difference(#timenow, #datetime, #tmp)));
			if(#diff > 0);
				if((#tmp=='day')&&(#diff==1));
					#output = 'yesterday';
				else;
					#output = #diff+' '#tmp+(#diff>1?'s')+' ago';
				/if;
				loop_abort;
			/if;
		/iterate;
		return(@#output);
	/define_tag;
/if;

Related Tags

[date_relative]

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