kevinlawler/NSDate-TimeAgo
A "time ago", "time since", "relative date", or "fuzzy date" category for NSDate and iOS, Objective-C, Cocoa Touch, iPhone, iPad observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
10/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases archived
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 5408
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 2130
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1743 stars · 312 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
An Objective-C category on NSDate for iOS/Cocoa Touch that renders relative, human-friendly timestamps like '5 minutes ago' or 'Yesterday'. It supports dozens of languages and has been merged into the DateTools project, with this repo kept only as an archive.
Use cases
- display 'time ago' strings for feed timestamps in an iOS app
- show fuzzy relative dates like 'yesterday' or 'last month' in Objective-C
- localize relative time strings across many languages on iPhone/iPad
- format 'time since' labels for chat or social app messages
- convert NSDate values into human-readable elapsed-time text
When to choose
- you maintain a legacy Objective-C iOS codebase already using it
- you want a tiny, dependency-light NSDate category with broad localization
- you are following the archived code for reference
When to avoid
- you are starting a new project - use DateTools instead, which absorbed this project
- you need Swift-native APIs or active maintenance and support
- you need customizable output strings or precision options, which were never implemented
Facets
library · maturity abandoned
date-time internationalization mobile-development developer-tools objective-c nsdate relative-time fuzzy-date cocoa-touch archived carthage cocoapods localization ios swift mobile
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/kevinlawler/NSDate-TimeAgo · fetched 2026-08-28 · 332c6ebdcc7d
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| kevinlawler/NSDate-TimeAgo | main | 10 |
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