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pear/date\_humandiff
====================

Generate textual time differences that are easily understandable by humans.

v0.5.0(12y ago)2523.4k↓50%8LGPLPHP

Since Mar 23Pushed 6y ago6 watchersCompare

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Date\_HumanDiff
===============

[](#date_humandiff)

Generate textual time differences that are easily understandable by humans.

The class supports minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and years.

Examples:

- 5 seconds ago -> just now
- 65 seconds ago -> a minute ago
- 120 seconds ago -> 2 minutes ago
- a week ago
- 3 weeks ago
- a month ago
- 8 months ago
- a year ago
- 5 years ago

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

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Supported languages
-------------------

[](#supported-languages)

- German
- English
- Greek
- Persian
- Russian

Use a language with `setLocale()`:

```
$dh = new Date_HumanDiff();
$dh->setLocale('de');
echo $dh->get(time() - 60 * 5) . "\n"; //shows "vor 5 Minuten"
```

Other libraries
---------------

[](#other-libraries)

Javascript; library that's been used as base for Date\_HumanDiffJavascript; with localization optionsPython

###  Health Score

35

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LowBetter than 79% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity35

Limited adoption so far

Community21

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity53

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 72.7% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

4430d ago

### Community

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Tags

datelibraryphptime

###  Code Quality

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