"Pretty time" for GWT - gwt

Question

There is a "Pretty time" library for Java based on this post:
How to calculate "time ago" in Java?
Is there anything like this for GWT?

Answer 1

GWT relative time

Answer 2

I will not recommend you to include some 3-rd parties for this task - there is more simple way.
Just count number of seconds, minutes, hours, ...e.t.c. and then format the result text - use Plural Forms - built in GWT i18n tool for formatting such text as
"one second", "two seconds", e.t.c. So all messages will be localized and stored into i18n resources, no any hardcode.

Answer 3

I coded this for an Android java project. I created a class with 2 methods:
/**
* Created by mihai on 2/27/17.
*/
import android.util.Log;
import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
import org.ocpsoft.prettytime.PrettyTime;
public class Ptime {
static public class PtimeFormatter {
public static String getPtime(){
PrettyTime p = new PrettyTime();
Log.d("demo", "time now: "+new Date());
//getPtimeFrom("Mon Feb 27 19:17:13 EST 2017");
return p.format(new Date());
//prints: “moments from now”
//System.out.println(p.format(new Date(System.currentTimeMillis() + 1000 * 60 * 10)));
//prints: “10 minutes from now”
}
public static String getPtimeFrom(String t){
PrettyTime p = new PrettyTime();
DateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM d HH:mm:ss z yyyy");
try {
Date date = (Date)formatter.parse(t);
Log.d("demo", "time from now: "+p.format(date));
return p.format(date);
} catch (ParseException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
//Log.d("demo", "time now: "+p.format(date));
return null;
}
public static String getPTimeMillis(String t){
PrettyTime p = new PrettyTime();
String currMilis = String.valueOf(System.currentTimeMillis());
DateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM d HH:mm:ss z yyyy");
try {
Date aTime = formatter.parse(t);
Log.d("demo", "time millis: "+aTime.getTime());
return String.valueOf(Long.parseLong(currMilis) - aTime.getTime());
} catch (ParseException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return null;
}
}
}