[vz_elapsedtime]
| Link | vz_elapsedtime |
| Author | Pier Kuipers |
| Category | Date |
| Version | 8.5.x |
| License | Public Domain |
| Posted | 25 Jul 2008 |
| Updated | 25 Jul 2008 |
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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".
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;
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