#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

use vars qw($SECOND $MINUTE $HOUR $DAY $WEEK);

$SECOND = 1;
$MINUTE = 60 * $SECOND; # i know, i know
$HOUR = 60 * $MINUTE;
$DAY = 24 * $HOUR;
$WEEK = 7 * $DAY;

sub get_lapse
{
        my $last_here = shift;

        my $difference = time - $last_here;

        my @params = ();

        if ($difference >= $WEEK) {
                push @params, $WEEK, 'week', 'weeks';
        } elsif ($difference >= $DAY) {
                push @params, $DAY, 'day', 'days';
        } elsif ($difference >= $HOUR) {
                push @params, $HOUR, 'hour', 'hours';
        } elsif ($difference >= $MINUTE) {
                push @params, $MINUTE, 'minute', 'minutes';
        } else {
                push @params, $SECOND, 'second', 'seconds';
        }

    # assume $difference is positive
        my $lapse = int($difference / $params[0] + 0.5);

        sprintf "%d %s ago", $lapse, $params[$lapse == 1 ? 1 : 2];
}

my $last_here = time - $DAY - 10 * $MINUTE;

print get_lapse($last_here), "\n";

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since i presume vroom can get the timestamp easily enough, hopefully this code is a full enough implementation that this feature can be added (that is if people would actually say what they think of the idea).

i think that weeks are fine for the chunkiest granularity, but months could be added if necessary. the main problem with that being that months differ in length.

In reply to RE: Last Here Date by mdillon
in thread Last Here Date by mdillon

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