PHP library to generate user friendly relative timestamps

Question

I'm looking for a PHP library that generates user-friendly representations of times - for example "two hours ago" when the timestamp is time() - 2 * 3600.

There are several existing questions with answers and blog posts (1, 2, 3), but all only contain code snippets - not a library I can install and upgrade.

Django has one, Python also has a standalone lib, Javascript has several (1, 2, 3), too - where is the PHP library?

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A library should have the following things:

• documentation
• PEAR installable
• regular releases
• (optional) translations

Answer 1

Since there didn't seem to be any library, I've made one myself and got it included in PEAR:

Date_HumanDiff, http://pear.php.net/package/Date_HumanDiff

Code is at http://github.com/pear/Date_HumanDiff

Answer 2

I know Kohana has one, you can propably port it easily.

The function is called fuzzy_span().

See http://kohanaframework.org/3.3/guide-api/Date#fuzzy_span

Answer 3

Kohana Date class provides fuzzy_span() method for this. But it can't reply you exact values like "10 minutes"