FileMaker custom function to report the approximate distance in time between two dates as words.
distanceOfDateInWords is a FileMaker custom function to express a time interval in words, given two input dates.
distanceOfDateInWords(firstDate, secondDate)
If the first date is more than 720 days before the second date, the custom function returns an approximate number of years in the form "over XXX years ago"
If the first date is between 720 days and 61 days before the second date, the custom function returns an approximate number of months in the form "about XXX months ago"
If the first date is 60 days or less before the second date, the custom function returns a number of days in the form "XXX days ago"
If the first date is 1 day before the second date, the custom function returns "yesterday"
If the first date is the same as the second date, the custom function returns "today"
If the first date is 1 day after the second date, the custom function returns "tomorrow"
If the first date is 60 days or less after the second date, the custom function returns a number of days in the form "XXX days time"
If the first date is between 61 days and 720 days after the second date, the custom function returns an approximate number of months in the form "about XXX months time"
If the first date is more than 720 days after the second date, the custom function returns an approximate number of years in the form "over XXX years time"
distanceOfDateInWords(Date (1, 20, 2012), Date (1, 20, 2014)) => over 2 years ago
distanceOfDateInWords(Date (1, 20, 2013), Date (1, 20, 2014)) => about 12 months ago
distanceOfDateInWords(Date (10, 20, 2013), Date (1, 20, 2014)) => about 3 months ago
distanceOfDateInWords(Date (11, 20, 2013), Date (1, 20, 2014)) => about 2 months ago
distanceOfDateInWords(Date (11, 21, 2013), Date (1, 20, 2014)) => 60 days ago
distanceOfDateInWords(Date (1, 2, 2014), Date (1, 20, 2014)) => 18 days ago
distanceOfDateInWords(Date (1, 18, 2014), Date (1, 20, 2014)) => 2 days ago
distanceOfDateInWords(Date (1, 19, 2014), Date (1, 20, 2014)) => yesterday
distanceOfDateInWords(Date (1, 20, 2014), Date (1, 20, 2014)) => today
distanceOfDateInWords(Date (1, 21, 2014), Date (1, 20, 2014)) => tomorrow
distanceOfDateInWords(Date (1, 22, 2014), Date (1, 20, 2014)) => 2 days time
distanceOfDateInWords(Date (2, 7, 2014), Date (1, 20, 2014)) => 18 days time
distanceOfDateInWords(Date (3, 21, 2014), Date (1, 20, 2014)) => 60 days time
distanceOfDateInWords(Date (3, 22, 2014), Date (1, 20, 2014)) => about 2 months time
distanceOfDateInWords(Date (4, 20, 2014), Date (1, 20, 2014)) => about 3 months time
distanceOfDateInWords(Date (1, 20, 2015), Date (1, 20, 2014)) => about 12 months time
distanceOfDateInWords(Date (1, 20, 2016), Date (1, 20, 2014)) => over 2 years time
Inspired by and adapted from [10-patches] (https://github.com/edavis10/redmine/blob/master/config/initializers/10-patches.rb) to [Redmine] (https://github.com/edavis10/redmine)
Comments and bug reports are welcome.
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- Create a fork of the repo from http://github.com/cantab/distanceOfDateInWords
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- Write the code that allows the tests to pass.
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