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DateAgeDisplay ( aTimeStamp )

Display the age of a timestamp in a facebook-style display in either seconds/minutes/hours/days

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Daniel Wood - Show more from this author Digital Fusion Ltd http://www.teamdf.com

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/* Purpose: To display the age of something in a seconds/minutes/hours/days format. This is a similar format to used on a number of websites now, ie facebook Example: 6 seconds / 8 minutes / 14 hours / 1 day Assumptions: Rounds off to the nearest unit. Assumptions: Once maximum unit reached, automatically ticks over to next (ie 61 minutes = 1 hour, 61 seconds = 1 minute, 25 hours = 1 day ) Created by: Daniel Wood, Digital Fusion Ltd, 14/3/2009 */ Let ( [ Difference = GetAsNumber ( Abs ( Get ( CurrentTimeStamp ) - aTimestamp ) ) ; SetVariables = Case ( Difference ≤ 60 ; Let ([ $unit = "second" ; $amount = Difference ]; "" ) ; Difference ≤ 3600 ; Let ([$unit = "minute" ; $amount = Round ( Difference / 60 ; 0 ) ]; "" ) ; Difference ≤ 86400 ; Let ([$unit = "hour" ; $amount = Round ( Difference / 3600 ; 0 ) ]; "" ) ; Let ([ $unit = "day" ; $amount = Round ( Difference / 86400 ; 0 ) ]; "" ) ) ]; $amount & " " & $unit & If ( $amount ≠ 1 ; "s" ; "" ) ) Click to copy

This function will display a condensed version of the age of a timestamp suitable for when you don't need to know the exact age. It will display the age in one of four formats: seconds / minutes / hours / days. Only one of the four formats is used depending on the age of the timestamp.

Examples:

1 second
35 minutes
6 hours
2 days ....

Handy if you use concepts like tasks, messages, notifications, alerts in your database, it quickly lets users see how old something is without bombarding them with confusing dates and timestamps.

 

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