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README
Migration 2014.04.12
NSDate+TimeAgo has merged with DateTools. DateTools is the parent project and Matthew York is the project head.
This project is now part of DateTools. Please visit https://github.com/MatthewYork/DateTools
This repo is here in archive form. New work should be contributed to DateTools.
2016.01.04. To reiterate, all issues and contributions should go to DateTools, there is zero promise anything here will be looked at. Kevin's attention is on Kerf.
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)
- ee (Estonian)
- es (Spanish)
- zh_Hans (Chinese Simplified)
- zh_Hant (Chinese Traditional)
- pt (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)
- ko (Korean)
- bg (Bulgarian)
- he (Hebrew)
- ar (Arabic)
- gre (Greek)
- pl (Polish)
- sv (Swedish)
- th (Thai)
- uk (Ukrainian)
- is (Icelandic)
- sq (Albanian)
- sk (Slovak)
- ms (Malay)
- km (Cambodian)
- id (Bahasa-Indonesia)
- mn (Mongolian)
- ur (Urdu)
If you know a language not listed here, please consider submitting a translation. Localization codes by language.
This project is user driven (by people like you). Pull requests close faster than issues (merged or rejected).
Use
-
Add
the files to your project - manually or via Cocoapods (pod 'NSDate+TimeAgo'
) - Import the header using
#import "NSDate+TimeAgo.h"
- 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"
2 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 thandateTimeAgo
but more natural
Those three methods can be interchanged as they have the same signature.
Future Directions
Would be nice to
- add customization options (e.g., should it report seconds or just "a minute ago")
- add string customization
- have more localizations
- make
dateTimeUntilNow
more precise: instead of "Last week" use "Last Friday", "Last Monday" etc. - 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
analogstyle added ko
Korean strings. http://almacreative.net/
Flavio Caetano fixed pt
Portuguese strings. http://flaviocaetano.com
kolarski added bg
Bulgarian strings. http://github.com/kolarski
Vladimir Kofman added he
Hebrew strings. https://github.com/vladimirkofman
Viraf Sarkari added ar
Arabic, gre
Greek, pl
Polish, sv
Swedish, and th
Thai strings. https://github.com/viraf
Vasyl Skrypii added uk
Ukranian strings. https://github.com/medlay
Maggi Trymbill added is
Icelandic strings. https://github.com/grundvollur
Erid Bardhaj added sq
Albanian strings. https://github.com/eridbardhaj
Joan Biscarri added ca
Catalan strings. https://github.com/jbiscarri
Gantulga added mn
Mongolian strings. https://github.com/gangstarmn
ali-ehsan added ur
Urdu strings. https://github.com/ali-ehsan
Zonily Jame Pesquera added id
Bahasa Indonesia strings. https://github.com/kuyazee
Zonily Jame Pesquera added km
Khmer strings. https://github.com/kuyazee
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