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Relative Date Parse

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  1. function normalizeDate(time)
  2. {
  3. 	var values = time.split(" ");
  4. 	time = values[1] + " " + values[2] + ", " + values[5] + " " + values[3];
  5. 	var parsed_date = Date.parse(time);
  6. 	var relative_to = (arguments.length > 1) ? arguments[1] : new Date();
  7. 	var delta = parseInt((relative_to.getTime() - parsed_date) / 1000);
  8. 		 delta = delta + (relative_to.getTimezoneOffset() * 60);
  9.  
  10. 	var out = '';
  11. 	if (delta < 60) 
  12. 	{
  13. 		out = 'a minute ago';
  14. 	} else if(delta < 120) 
  15. 	{
  16. 		out = 'couple of minutes ago';
  17. 	} else if(delta < (45*60)) 
  18. 	{
  19. 		out = (parseInt(delta / 60)).toString() + ' minutes ago';
  20. 	} else if(delta < (90*60)) 
  21. 	{
  22. 		out = 'an hour ago';
  23. 	} else if(delta < (24*60*60)) 
  24. 	{
  25. 		out = '' + (parseInt(delta / 3600)).toString() + ' hours ago';
  26. 	} else if(delta < (48*60*60)) 
  27. 	{
  28. 		out = '1 day ago';
  29. 	} else 
  30. 	{
  31. 		out = (parseInt(delta / 86400)).toString() + ' days ago';
  32. 	}
  33.  
  34. 		return out;
  35. 	}

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