Android Timestamp Get getRelativeTimeofTweet(String timeStamp)

Description

Return an absolute timestamp such as "49 seconds ago"

Parameter

Parameter	Description
timeStamp	a parameter

Declaration

public static String getRelativeTimeofTweet(String timeStamp) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
import android.text.format.DateUtils;
import android.util.Log;
import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;

import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Locale;

public class Main {
    private static final String PARSE_TIMESTAMP_FORMAT = "EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss ZZZZZ yyyy";

    /**//from www. ja  va2  s .  c  om
     * Return an absolute timestamp such as "49 seconds ago"
     * @param timeStamp
     * @return
     */
    public static String getRelativeTimeofTweet(String timeStamp) {

        final SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(
                PARSE_TIMESTAMP_FORMAT, Locale.ENGLISH);
        String relativeTime = "";

        try {
            long dateInMillis = sdf.parse(timeStamp).getTime();

            relativeTime = getRelativeTimeAgo(dateInMillis);

        } catch (ParseException e) {
            Log.d("info", "Couldn't parse relative timestamp for: "
                    + timeStamp);
        }

        return relativeTime;
    }

    public static String getRelativeTimeAgo(long dateMillis) {
        String relativeDate = "";
        relativeDate = DateUtils.getRelativeTimeSpanString(dateMillis,
                System.currentTimeMillis(), DateUtils.SECOND_IN_MILLIS)
                .toString();

        HashMap<String, String> replaceMappings = new HashMap<String, String>();
        replaceMappings.put(" hours ago", "h");
        replaceMappings.put(" hour ago", "h");
        replaceMappings.put(" minutes ago", "m");
        replaceMappings.put(" minute ago", "m");
        replaceMappings.put(" seconds ago", "s");
        replaceMappings.put(" second ago", "s");
        replaceMappings.put(" day ago", "d");
        replaceMappings.put(" days ago", "d");
        replaceMappings.put("Yesterday", "1d");
        for (String suffixKey : replaceMappings.keySet()) {
            if (relativeDate.endsWith(suffixKey)) {
                relativeDate = relativeDate.replace(suffixKey,
                        replaceMappings.get(suffixKey));
            }
        }

        if (relativeDate.contains(",")) {
            int commaIndex = relativeDate.indexOf(",");
            relativeDate = relativeDate.substring(0, commaIndex);
        }

        return relativeDate;
    }
}

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8. getTimeStamp()
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