How does the bubble forum reformat dates per this screenshot?

GB44 · 2020-09-16T04:21:51.089Z

Egs:
1h for 1 hour ago.
3d for 3 days ago
etc.

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Nocodify · 2020-09-16T04:26:15.322Z

It’s discourse so bubble doesn’t really control the date formatting (to my knowledge).

If you wanted to do this in your bubble app, you’d use the plugin “Relative time.”

We have a tutorial for this at nocodify.com.

Tal

GB44 · 2020-09-16T04:54:03.702Z

Thanks. That was helpful and you got $5 from me

But what I really wanted the super short form. So 1m vs 1 minute ago

bappy36899 · 2020-09-16T11:29:39.017Z

How can I create apps with this

Nocodify · 2020-09-16T14:03:37.072Z

There’s a setting on the plugin to remove the suffix!

GB44 · 2020-09-16T14:31:25.870Z

Thanks. But I think it still says 1 minute vs 1m?

sudsy · 2020-09-16T16:36:07.518Z

GB44:

1h for 1 hour ago.
3d for 3 days ago

In pure Bubble, this can be achieved through simple subtraction and formatting…

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Of course, the above example assumes the chosen time is in the past.

Here’s a more advanced example which handles past and future date/time selections.

GB44 · 2020-09-16T16:50:54.534Z

That’s cool and thanks for sharing. Could I then parse out just the part I want?

Eg 18m ago using the example below

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sudsy · 2020-09-16T17:26:48.354Z

GB44:

Could I then parse out just the part I want?

It would be best to learn how to build what you need from scratch. There’s an edit mode link in the upper right, although as I said, it’s an advanced example.

It might be best to try to replicate the simple example in the image I posted and go from there. Or just stick with whatever other solution you’ve found that works.

I just wanted provide an example using pure Bubble, as there seems to be a fair amount of confusion about how Bubble dates work and what you can do with them. They’re actually pretty powerful and flexible, but like anything else, you have to take the time to learn how to use them.

boston85719 · 2020-09-16T19:28:29.959Z

Calculate 'time passed' based on 'latest activity' Need help

You can use the time stamp and then subtract the current date/time and format as a days if it is days that have past…you could also format it just as a number to show if it is minutes. Here is a screen shot from my set up for messages [Screen Shot 2020-08-10 at 12.01.16 AM] [Screen Shot 2020-08-10 at 12.01.09 AM] Note: I used the *-1 because I put the times in wrong order to start and was too lazy to change it all so I just multiplied by -1 to turn the negative to positive.

sudsy · 2020-09-17T01:25:48.393Z

Is that not what I posted in my screenshot? The reference date in that case is from a date picker but could be from any source.

boston85719 · 2020-09-17T07:01:10.434Z

I just now reviewed what your screen shot referenced…looks like they are different.

What I put up doesn’t utilize any custom states on the date picker but instead just uses some math formulas to extract the specific days, hours or minutes that had passed since some event took place to be used as conditionals so that then the text of an element can change to reflect if it has been some number of days, hours or minutes that had passed since the event.

In my example the days, hours, minutes and seconds would not all be shown regardless of the amount of time that past…instead what I had shared would render a text element that would look like

2 days ago
12 hours ago
5 minutes ago

Just another way to do something that gets closer to what the relative time plugins do, but without needing to fuss over how the plugins do not provide the abilities to edit the expressions

sudsy · 2020-09-17T09:28:43.485Z

Matthew McGowan:

What I put up doesn’t utilize any custom states on the date picker

Nor does mine. I don’t think you’re looking at my screenshot. No custom states (or conditionals) - just bare-bones subtraction and formatting.

No worries though. Repetition and variation certainly don’t hurt - especially with dates.

boston85719 · 2020-09-17T10:03:46.806Z

No, I wasn’t looking at the screen shot…I was looking at the editor of the advanced example. I guess I had looked at the screen shot as being one uploaded by malcolm