In Ruby on Rails, there is a feature that allows you to take any Date and print out how "long ago" it was.
For example:
8 minutes ago
8 hours ago
8 days ago
8 months ago
8 years ago
Is there an easy way to do this in Java?
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Take a look at the PrettyTime library.
It's quite simple to use:
import org.ocpsoft.prettytime.PrettyTime;
PrettyTime p = new PrettyTime();
System.out.println(p.format(new Date()));
// prints "moments ago"
You can also pass in a locale for internationalized messages:
PrettyTime p = new PrettyTime(new Locale("fr"));
System.out.println(p.format(new Date()));
// prints "à l'instant"
As noted in the comments, Android has this functionality built into the android.text.format.DateUtils class.