Twitter-Like Time Display

This was another shock to me a while back, especially since it has been in WordPress since version 1.5! If you’d like to show viewers a relative date in a human-readable format, like “5 minutes ago” or “one month ago,” try the human_timed_diff() function.


$diff = human_time_diff( '2012-05-05 12:05:00', '2012-05-05 12:10:00' );
echo 'This comment was submitted ' . $diff . 'ago';
// Output: This comment was submitted 5 minutes ago