Rails - Aug 2006 - Date length in english plugin/built in?

Is there a plugin or built in function for converting a date interval
into the English equivalent?  For example,  "So and so posted this 45
minutes ago".  

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Nathan P. Verni wrote:
> Is there a plugin or built in function for converting a date interval 
> into the English equivalent?  For example,  ?So and so posted this *45 
> minutes ago?.* 
The helper function time_ago_in_words does this.

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/DateHelper.html#M000467

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Philip Ross
http://tzinfo.rubyforge.org/ -- DST-aware timezone library for Ruby

Thanks Philip!

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Nathan P. Verni wrote:
> Is there a plugin or built in function for converting a date interval 
> into the English equivalent?  For example,  "So and so posted this *45
> minutes ago".* 
The helper function time_ago_in_words does this.

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/DateHelper.html#M0
00467

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Philip Ross
http://tzinfo.rubyforge.org/ -- DST-aware timezone library for Ruby

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