Re: Displaying a scaling, relative time or date
Re: Displaying a scaling, relative time or date
- Subject: Re: Displaying a scaling, relative time or date
- From: Ken Thomases <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 18:52:25 -0600
On Jan 7, 2015, at 6:18 PM, Graham Cox <email@hidden> wrote:
> I want a label in my interface to display a relative time using a "sensible" approximate scale depending on the value. I'm not sure if I can use NSDateFormatter for this - it seems it's a bit too fixed in using only the units you assign.
>
> For example, if the value is less than a minute, it should say "x seconds ago", if it's in the range of 1-59 minutes, "x minutes ago", "about an hour ago", "x hours ago", "yesterday", "x days ago", "about a week ago", "x weeks ago", "about a month ago", "x months ago" - you get the picture. Is this possible using NSDateFormatter, or do I have to roll my own for this?
If you can require 10.10 or iOS 8, there's a new class for this: NSDateComponentsFormatter. There's no class reference for it yet. It's described in the Foundation release notes <https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/releasenotes/Foundation/RN-Foundation/#10_10Formatters> and in its header file.
If you can't require those versions of the OSes, then I think you have to roll your own. Or find a third-party library/framework/class.
Regards,
Ken
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