Updated February 2, 2014

Django Dana Time

If Django Humanize were a little more human

This project is open source. The code can be found at https://github.com/danasilver/django-dana-time.

Purpose

Django Humanize is a great tool to produce human readable times, dates, and numbers. However humanize.naturaltime falls back to Django's timesince template filter if the date is more than a day old. Timesince might return something like "20 days, 5 hours," which is overly verbose for how long ago the date was. It's more useful to know a month and date at that point than mentally counting back 20 days and 5 hours. This becomes even more problematic when the date is over a year ago.

Django Dana Time solves this problem by falling back to real times and dates that humans can quickly understand when the date is more than a day old. See the formatting examples below for full details.

Formatting

Use

Save danatime.py in your Django app or project.

Load the filter:

{% load danatime %}

Use the filter:

{% mytime|danatime %}

Development

Issues and pull requests are welcome. You can open one at https://github.com/danasilver/django-dana-time/issues.