Get elapsed time using a datetime field, e.g 10 minutes ago

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JavaScript (Server)

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Thomas Adrian

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February 29, 2012 at 12:00 PM

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This function return time elapsed between a date field in Notes and Now, (e.g 3 Days ago, or 4 minutes ago)

You can call the function like this:

var dt:NotesDateTime = doc.getItemValueDateTimeArray("DateTimeField")[0];
return getTimeElapsed(dt);

Note: this is server side code, there are jquery and dojo plugins available on internet for doing this client side

function getTimeElapsed(ndt1:NotesDateTime){

	var ndt2:NotesDateTime = session.createDateTime("Today");
	ndt2.setNow();
	var dt3:NotesDateTime = ndt2.timeDifference(ndt1);

	var min = parseInt(dt3/60,0);
	var hours = parseInt(min/60,0);
	var days = parseInt(hours/24,0);
	
	if(days>0 && days <1){
		return "1 day ago";
	}else if(days>0){
		return days + "days ago";
	}else if(hours>0 && hours<2){
		return "1 hour ago";
	}else if(hours>1){
		return hours + " hours ago";
	}else if(min>0){
		return min + " minutes ago";
	}else if(min==0){
		return "less than a minutes ago";
	}else{
		return "Error "
	}
}

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