Fancy time-formatter displaying "5 min ago", "yesterday" etc [duplicate]

Question

What is the best way to format time like modern web-pages (including StackOverflow ;-) do, i.e. using simple relative descriptions like:

• 5 seconds ago
• 23 minutes ago
• yesterday
• 2 days ago
• ...

I am looking for a library that can handle this in addition to multiple locales. I can supply the phrases ( "X seconds" in English, "X Sekunden" in German etc.).

Answer 1

I think this is what you are looking for :

How to calculate "time ago" in Java?

The lib: PrettyTime

For German:

PrettyTime p = new PrettyTime(new Locale("de"));
System.out.println(p.format(new Date()));

For English:

PrettyTime p = new PrettyTime();
System.out.println(p.format(new Date()));

Apparently available in 25 languages.