iPhone: Convert date string to a relative time stamp

Question

I\'ve got a timestamp as a string like:

Thu, 21 May 09 19:10:09 -0700

and I\'d like to convert it to a relative time stamp like

Answer 1

My solution:

- (NSString *) dateToName:(NSDate*)dt withSec:(BOOL)sec {

    NSLocale *locale = [NSLocale currentLocale];
    NSTimeInterval tI = [[NSDate date] timeIntervalSinceDate:dt];
    if (tI < 60) {
      if (sec == NO) {
           return NSLocalizedString(@"Just Now", @"");
       }
       return [NSString stringWithFormat:
                 NSLocalizedString(@"%d seconds ago", @""),(int)tI];
     }
     if (tI < 3600) {
       return [NSString stringWithFormat:
                 NSLocalizedString(@"%d minutes ago", @""),(int)(tI/60)];
     }
     if (tI < 86400) {
      return [NSString stringWithFormat:
                 NSLocalizedString(@"%d hours ago", @""),(int)tI/3600];
     }

     NSDateFormatter *relativeDateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
     [relativeDateFormatter setTimeStyle:NSDateFormatterNoStyle];
     [relativeDateFormatter setDateStyle:NSDateFormatterMediumStyle];
     [relativeDateFormatter setDoesRelativeDateFormatting:YES];
     [relativeDateFormatter setLocale:locale];

     NSString * relativeFormattedString = 
            [relativeDateFormatter stringForObjectValue:dt];
     return relativeFormattedString;
}