I wrote a function. Or rather, I rewrote some Javascript I found into C#.

It basically transforms a regular date into a date that's more readable for humans. So Oct 25th would return "Tomorrow", while October 24th would return "Today", etc.

I posted the function on my blog here: http://entropia-online.blogspot.com/...ates-in-c.html.

I tried putting in color to indicate the keywords etc, but blogspot is being a pain in the #ss.

I intend to sue this code (among other places) as a "wrapper" around dates indicating times posted in the forum, perhaps in the articles section, and definitely in the Private Messages section. I think it'd make a nice addition to the Globals class, actually.

Comments more than welcome :)

Cheers,

Peter


http://entropia-online.blogspot.com/

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Peter,

Had a quick look and in essence, it looks fine. with my 'picky' hat on (and my mods suffer from this too), you appear to be missing any regionalisation in that code. now, i know this isn't a big issue if your audience will all be reading/writing in english, but it is something that we 'collectively' should consider. i know marco uses the resource tables for this purpose, i'm not 100% convinced that that is the most effective way and would prefer xml for this kind of thing (i.e. structured by country/keyword/translation).

anyway, that in itself is a whole other project, so i wont go there :) (YET!!)
other than that, i like your 'humanisation' of the dates and i for one would certainly use that kinda method.

jimi

http://www.originaltalent.com

nice!

Personally, I don't used future dates on my site yet...

The dates date I used was on the forum!

I made a asp.net forum to check the date and return:

Today, at 6.09
Yesterday at 6.09

Or the habitual date

But your funtion looks nice!
Now that I know where she is, maybe I could use it some day!

Peter, you passed from HateJavaScript to JSaholic lol

Hehe.

The only reason I did include future dates is because there might be in-game events hosted by users, or possibly we'd write an article about an upcoming event. I figured that if I'd translate the code, I might as well do it all the way, rather than having to rewrite the code again at a later day.

I'm now pondering also rewriting it to SQL. I've literally found squat while googling for something like this in C# or SQL. Only that bit of JS. And not to worry, I'm not a full blown fan yet, but I am starting to realize there's occassions where I just have to use JS.

Peter

http://entropia-online.blogspot.com/