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#1075185

I would like to display the time elapsed since and article was posted by subtracting it from the current time. Any suggesstion?

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#1075354

Any sample of date format that you’re mentioning?

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#1075359

Hello, thank you for fast reply. Elapsed time from publish article time. If article was published 2 hours ago, I need that time to visible (hours, minutes)

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#1075556

Hi,

You will need some customization to achieve that. Here is my tweak:
1) Go to file: [root]/templates/ja_teline_v/helper.php

Add a new function called relTime:

public static function relTime($timespan, $granularity = 1) {
    static $units = array(
      'YEAR' => 31536000,
      'MONTH' => 2592000,
      'WEEK' => 604800,
      'DAY' => 86400,
      'HOUR' => 3600,
      'MIN' => 60,
      'SEC' => 1,
    );

    $output = '';
    if(!ctype_digit($timespan)){
      $timespan = strtotime($timespan);
    }

      $interval = time() - $timespan;

      $future = $interval < 0;
      if($future){
        $interval = abs($interval);
      }

    foreach ($units as $key => $value) {
      if ($interval >= $value) {
        $output .= ($output ? ' ' : '') . JText::sprintf('TPL_RT_' . $key . (floor($interval / $value) != 1 ? 'S' : ''), floor($interval / $value));
        $interval %= $value;
        $granularity--;
      }

      if ($granularity == 0) {
        break;
      }
    }

    return $output ? JText::sprintf($future ? 'TPL_RT_FUTURE' : 'TPL_RT_PAST', $output) : JText::_('TPL_RT_NOW');
    }

It looks like this: http://prntscr.com/hd59dh

2) Open the file: [root]/templates/ja_teline_v/html/layouts/joomla/content/info_block/publish_date.php

Under the time tag, change it to:

<time datetime="<?php echo JHtml::_('date', $displayData['item']->publish_up, 'c'); ?>" itemprop="datePublished">
    <?php echo JATemplateHelper::relTime($displayData['item']->publish_up); ?>
    <?php echo $displayData['item']->publish_up ?>
</time>

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3) Go to language file of template: [root]/language/en-GB/en-GB.tpl_ja_teline_v.ini

Add these language text:

TPL_RT_FUTURE     ="in %s"
TPL_RT_PAST       ="%s ago"
TPL_RT_NOW        ="just now"
TPL_RT_YEAR       ="1 year"
TPL_RT_YEARS      ="%d years"
TPL_RT_MONTH      ="1 month"
TPL_RT_MONTHS     ="%d months"
TPL_RT_WEEK       ="1 week"
TPL_RT_WEEKS      ="%d weeks"
TPL_RT_DAY        ="1 day"
TPL_RT_DAYS       ="%d days"
TPL_RT_HOUR       ="1 hour"
TPL_RT_HOURS      ="%d hours"
TPL_RT_MIN        ="1 min"
TPL_RT_MINS       ="%d mins"
TPL_RT_SEC        ="1 sec"
TPL_RT_SECS       ="%d secs"

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