More formats

[dirkluijk]

What is your opinion about this style of human dates?

Date transformation (compared to now)

2 days ago
1 week ago
in 4 days

Date transformation (compared to another date)

2 days before
1 week before
4 days later

Timespan

0 years, 3 months, 1 week, 1 day, 3 hours, 20 minutes, 0 seconds

See https://github.com/jenssegers/laravel-date
for more examples.

It would be great to have it all in one place. Is it a good idea to extend this library to provide both styles?

If yes, I think the transform method could be extended with a $specific parameter, and new methods like compare (or diff) and timespan should be added.

[florianeckerstorfer]

The library is currently really simple because when I first wrote it I didn't need more functionality. I guess additional formats would be useful but I think this would require some major refactoring because much of the format is kind of hard coded into the code. Any ideas how we could approach this?