Reverse string to time

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I have a time currently displaying like this:

Thu Sep 12 04:28:37 +0000 2013

I know that with PHP's strtotime you can input things like '2 days ago' or 'last week', but what I want to do is input the timestamp I already have, and output something like '3 hours ago' or '1 day ago' in my HTML.

Is there a way to do this?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:13

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There is no build in way. check out this post: Converting timestamp to time ago in PHP e.g 1 day ago, 2 days ago...

use it like time_elapsed_string(strtotime("Thu Sep 12 04:28:37 +0000 2013"))

edited May 23 '17 at 12:13

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answered Sep 12 '13 at 10:30

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Ah cool thanks! Yeh that looks like the sorta thing I need. Shame it's not a build in function though when it can do it the other way round. – CaribouCode Sep 12 '13 at 10:33

Reverse string to time

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