ExtendedDateTool for representing date in "friendly format" relative to now

["Townson, Chris" <C....@nature.com>]

Hi,

Further to discussions with Nathan, I've added a page to the wiki here (http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta-velocity/ExtendedDateTool) which outlines a proposed extension to the current DateTool.

The purpose of the extension is to provide additional functionality which permits template designers to express dates in a "friendly format" relative to the current date; e.g.

"3 days ago"

"tomorrow"

"3 hours from now"

The code presented on the page includes my initial (very rough) run through at implementing this functionality as well as a (far more elegant) refactored version that Nate produced from it.

Chris

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christopher townson - new technology developer
nature publishing group - 4 crinan st., london
t. +44 (20) 7843-4644  e. c.townson@nature.com

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