Comments on: Relative Dates in WordPress Templates

By: Josh

Josh — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 15:42:39 +0000

This function is great. Thanks!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:38:09 +0000

Nice coding - yes it's good to personalise the timestamps according to the visitor (i.e. when they are reading the comments). I see digg.com does this now too.

By: Stefan

Stefan — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:06:12 +0000

Forget my last comment, it wasn't that :) Took me long enough to figure out but it was negative because in "$difference = time() - $timestamp;" the time() gets the server timestamp and the $timestamp (which is get_comment_time('U')), is the WordPress time which includes the offset set in the options page. From what they say on http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/current_time , using current_time('timestamp') instead of time() should work but it didn't... I still had to add my time zone offset in the code.

By: Stefan

Stefan — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 05:27:13 +0000

I was trying this on my redesign and for some reason all the $difference's ware negative until I changed them to: $difference = $timestamp - time(); And now it's working correctly. Seems strange to me too, but it does...