Human friendly date descriptions with NSDate on iOS

Question

I want to display NSDates in a \"human-friendly way\", such as \"last week\", or \"a few days ago\". Something similar to Pretty Time for Java.

What\'s the best way

Answer 1

This is the solution in Swift 2:

func formattedHumanReadable(date: NSDate) -> String {
    let formatter = NSDateFormatter()
    formatter.timeStyle = .NoStyle
    formatter.dateStyle = .ShortStyle
    formatter.doesRelativeDateFormatting = true

    let locale = NSLocale.currentLocale()
    formatter.locale = locale

    return formatter.stringFromDate(date)
  }