Humanized dates/ages for blosxom

After seeing some places implementing humanized dates and ages (Gmail impressed me most :), I coded fluffydates -plugin for blosxom.

It's output is age of certain date or date's shorter/more readable form. It most often looks like this for dates: 0:02; Yesterday 9:44; Thursday 9:44; February 18; February 18, 2003. For age it would look something like this: 20 minutes; 9½ hours; 0¾ day; 1¼ days; 7½ months; 1¾ years.

It supports multilingual sites, a primary language can be chosen and other languages used via interpolate_fancy blosxom plugin. interpolate_fancy can also be used for accessing date translating functions to have more interesting effects.

Usage/installation is simple: drop it into your plugin folder, and place $fluffydate::story_date and/or $fluffydate::story_age in your story.html. For fancier accessing you'll need interpolate_fancy.

With interpolate_fancy, you can use four additional functions, human_storydate, human_storyage, short_date and date_to_age. Two former are almost same as those provided via variables, but these can be localized.

All four functions take two parameters, lang and short. lang tells which language to use (English and Finnish so far :) and short tells if shorter form of date should be used (Mon instead of Monday, etc.)

Example with interpolate_fancy:

• <@fluffydate.human_storydate output="Yes" lang="fi" short="1" /> This function is story-specific, so it's use makes any sense only for story.html. It doesn't take any input, so it's a singular tag.
• <@fluffydate.human_storyage output="Yes" lang="en" /> This is also singular tag.
• <@fluffydate.short_date output="Yes">10/15/2004 00:02:14</@fluffydate.short_date>
  <@fluffydate.date_to_age output="Yes">10/15/2004 00:02:14</@fluffydate.date_to_age> These are non-singular functions, they take input. They can be used as counters (For example 'always-correct' age counter :), or as I do, in writebacks.html (this works for writebackplus, by Fletcher T. Penney):
  

  ...
   <span class="writeback-date" title="$writeback::date">
      <@humandate.short_date output="Yes" short="1">$writeback::date</@humandate.short_date>
   </span>

Download fluffydate.

Updated 2004-10-18: fixed typo, fixed one close-shaved moment cutoff, fixed handling with not found dates (again, typo).