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

Full code snippet for human readable dates in Xcode:

    NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
    [dateFormatter setTimeStyle:NSDateFormatterNoStyle];
    [dateFormatter setDateStyle:NSDateFormatterMediumStyle];

    NSLocale *locale = [NSLocale currentLocale];
    [dateFormatter setLocale:locale];

    [dateFormatter setDoesRelativeDateFormatting:YES];