Re: Friendly dates

Something like this, but this is not perfect.. The mktime seem to work only for Unix/Linux and not work for Windows. --snip-- function dateDiff($input_date) { //MSG #1 - Parameter1 must be in this date format --> "mm/dd/yyyy" //MSG #2 - This script does not include fix for the leap year... $UserInput = explode("/", $input_date); $UserInputMonth = $UserInput[0]; $UserInputDay = $UserInput[1]; $UserInputYear = $UserInput[2]; $clockDate = mktime(0,0,0,date("m"),date("d"),date("Y")); $inputDate = mktime(0,0,0,$UserInputMonth,$UserInputDay,$UserInputYear); $Days = (($clockDate - $inputDate) / (24 * 3600)); $Days = round($Days); return $Days; } --snip-- "Richard Davey" <rich@launchcode.co.uk> wrote in message news:169173357265.20031201155657@launchcode.co.uk... > Hi, > > I'm just wondering if anyone knows of a class/function (or easy way) > to do the following: > > At the moment I display dates like this: > > Last message received: 30th Nov 2003 16:07 > > This is fine, but I would like to make them more friendly like so: > > Last message received: Yesterday, 16:07 > > I would ideally like to have the ranges "Today, Yesterday, This Week, Last > Week" and beyond that I'll use the method above. > > I know how to actually do this from a code point of view, but think it > must be a quite general sort of task and am all for not re-inventing > the wheel here if someone knows/has a quick way to do this? > > -- > Best regards, > Richard mailto:rich@launchcode.co.uk