[twitter-dev] Re: Does anyone has Javascript function to convert date into twitter time format

If you pull the full documented source for the rather excellent twitter widgets (http://twitter.com/widgets), you'll find exactly the routine to do this.

    /**

      * relative time calculator

      * @param {string} twitter date string returned from Twitter API

      * @return {string} relative time like "2 minutes ago"

      */

    var timeAgo = function(dateString) {

      ....

The file has a large comment at the top 

 * For full documented source see http://twitter.com/javascripts/widgets/widget.js

 * Hosting and modifications of the original source IS allowed.

It also contains gems such as the "Twitalinkahashifyer" - handy routines for linking "@user" and the like

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Tim

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