User Friendly Time in time ago format for SharePoint Web Parts and C#.NET

In this article i will tell you how to use normal date time in User friendly format programmatically in SharePoint Custom Web Parts and C#.NET.

This is a pretty cool look we can use for displaying time. The Output looks like :

Here is the sample code to Create User Friendly Time in SharePoint Programmatically using C#.NET.

 /// <summary>
 /// Method used to Get the Datetime in User Friendly Date Format
 /// </summary>
 public static string GetUserFriendlyTime(DateTime dt, DateTime dtNowDate)
 {
  TimeSpan span = dtNowDate - dt;
  if (span.Days > 365)
  {
   int years = (span.Days / 365);

  if (span.Days % 365 != 0)
   years += 1;

   return String.Format("about {0} {1} ago", years, years == 1 ? "year" : "years");
   }

  if (span.Days > 30)
  {
   int months = (span.Days / 30);

  if (span.Days % 31 != 0)
    months += 1;

  return String.Format("about {0} {1} ago", months, months == 1 ? "month" : "months");
  }

  if (span.Days > 0)
  return String.Format("about {0} {1} ago", span.Days, span.Days == 1 ? "day" : "days");

  if (span.Hours > 0)
  return String.Format("about {0} {1} ago", span.Hours, span.Hours == 1 ? "hour" : "hours");

  if (span.Minutes > 0)
  return String.Format("about {0} {1} ago", span.Minutes, span.Minutes == 1 ? "minute" : "minutes");

  if (span.Seconds > 5)
  return String.Format("about {0} seconds ago", span.Seconds);

  if (span.Seconds <= 5)
  return "just now";

  return string.Empty;
 }

Hope this information is helpful for you.