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Display date as Today, Tomorrow, 2 Days ago etc

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This snippet is used to covert any date to days like today, tomorrow, 2 days ago, 2 weeks ago or even 1 years ago.

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  1. - (NSString *)relativeDateStringForDate:(NSDate *)date
  2. {
  3.    NSCalendarUnit units = NSCalendarUnitDay | NSCalendarUnitWeekOfYear | 
  4.                           NSCalendarUnitMonth | NSCalendarUnitYear;
  5.  
  6.    // if `date` is before "now" (i.e. in the past) then the components will be positive
  7.    NSDateComponents *components = [[NSCalendar currentCalendar] components:units
  8.                                                                   fromDate:date
  9.                                                                     toDate:[NSDate date]
  10.                                                                    options:0];
  11.  
  12.     if (components.year > 0) {
  13.        return [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%ld years ago", (long)components.year];
  14.    } else if (components.month > 0) {
  15.        return [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%ld months ago", (long)components.month];
  16.    } else if (components.weekOfYear > 0) {
  17.        return [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%ld weeks ago", (long)components.weekOfYear];
  18.    } else if (components.day > 0) {
  19.        if (components.day > 1) {
  20.            return [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%ld days ago", (long)components.day];
  21.        } else {
  22.            return @"Yesterday";
  23.        }
  24.    } else {
  25.        return @"Today";
  26.     }
  27. }

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