FriendlyDateFormatter

Class Overview

Formats a date in a relative, friendly way. For example, "2 minutes ago". A DateFormatter is used to format some dates according to the server's formats and the user's time zone. As such, you will need a new instance of this class for each user and "current time", typically one per request.

It is recommended that you pass a "now" time to the constructor to ensure that times are formatted against a known standard point in time. The alternate constructor uses the time that this object is created, which is probably not very useful.

This class is not thread-safe, primarily because it uses a DateFormatter class which is not thread-safe.

Summary

Public Constructors
	FriendlyDateFormatter(DateFormatter dateFormatter)
	FriendlyDateFormatter(Date now, DateFormatter dateFormatter)

Public Methods
Message	getFormatMessage(Date date) Returns the i18n message to format the given date relative to the "now" time passed to the constructor.

[Expand] Inherited Methods
From class java.lang.Object Object clone() boolean equals(Object arg0) void finalize() final Class<?> getClass() int hashCode() final void notify() final void notifyAll() String toString() final void wait() final void wait(long arg0, int arg1) final void wait(long arg0)