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

On iOS 4 and later, use the doesRelativeDateFormatting property:

NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = ...;
dateFormatter.doesRelativeDateFormatting = YES;