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# IVLE
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# Copyright (C) 2008 The University of Melbourne
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# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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# (at your option) any later version.
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#
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# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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# GNU General Public License for more details.
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# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
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# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA
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'''Utilities for making nice, human readable dates.'''
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import time
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import datetime
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def get_datetime(datetime_or_seconds):
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    '''Return the given datetime, or convert the given seconds since epoch.
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    >>> get_datetime(1000000000)
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    datetime.datetime(2001, 9, 9, 11, 46, 40)
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    >>> get_datetime(2000000000)
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    datetime.datetime(2033, 5, 18, 13, 33, 20)
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    >>> get_datetime(datetime.datetime(2009, 5, 26, 11, 38, 53))
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    datetime.datetime(2009, 5, 26, 11, 38, 53)
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    >>> get_datetime(datetime.datetime(2001, 9, 9, 11, 46, 40))
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    datetime.datetime(2001, 9, 9, 11, 46, 40)
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    '''
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    if type(datetime_or_seconds) is datetime.datetime:
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        return datetime_or_seconds
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    return datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(datetime_or_seconds)
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def make_date_nice(datetime_or_seconds):
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    """Generate a full human-readable representation of a date and time.
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    Given a datetime or number of seconds elapsed since the epoch,
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    generates a string representing the date/time in human-readable form.
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    "ddd mmm dd, yyyy h:m a"
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    >>> make_date_nice(datetime.datetime(2009, 5, 26, 11, 38, 53))
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    'Tue May 26 2009, 11:38am'
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    """
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    dt = get_datetime(datetime_or_seconds)
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    return dt.strftime("%a %b %d %Y, %l:%M%P")
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def make_date_nice_short(datetime_or_seconds):
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    """Generate a very compact human-readable representation of a date.
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    Given a datetime or number of seconds elapsed since the epoch,
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    generates a string representing the date in human-readable form.
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    Does not include the time.
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    >>> now = datetime.datetime.now()
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    >>> make_date_nice_short(now)
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    'Today'
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    >>> make_date_nice_short(now - datetime.timedelta(1))
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    'Yesterday'
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    >>> make_date_nice_short(now - datetime.timedelta(2))
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    '2 days ago'
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    >>> make_date_nice_short(now - datetime.timedelta(5))
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    '5 days ago'
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    >>> make_date_nice_short(1242783748)
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    'May 20'
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    """
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    dt = get_datetime(datetime_or_seconds)
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    now = datetime.datetime.now()
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    # Use a "naturalisation" algorithm.
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    delta = now - dt
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    if delta.days <= 5:
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        # Dates today or yesterday, return "today" or "yesterday".
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        if delta.days == 0:
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            return "Today"
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        elif delta.days == 1:
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            return "Yesterday"
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        else:
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            # Dates in the last 5 days, return "n days ago".
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            return str(delta.days) + " days ago"
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    # Other dates, return a short date format.
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    # If within the same year, omit the year (mmm dd)
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    if dt.year == now.year:
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        return dt.strftime("%b %d")
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    # Else, include the year (mmm dd, yyyy)
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    else:
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        return dt.strftime("%b %d, %Y")
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def format_datetime_for_paragraph(datetime_or_seconds):
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    """Generate a compact representation of a datetime for use in a paragraph.
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    Given a datetime or number of seconds elapsed since the epoch, generates
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    a compact string representing the date and time in human-readable form.
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    Unlike make_date_nice_short, the time will always be included.
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    Also unlike make_date_nice_short, it is suitable for use in the middle of
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    a block of prose and properly handles timestamps in the future nicely.
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    >>> now = datetime.datetime.now()
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    >>> today = now.date()
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    >>> time = datetime.time(10, 35, 40)
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    >>> earlier = datetime.datetime.combine(today, time)
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    >>> date = datetime.datetime(2009, 5, 20, 21, 19, 53)
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    >>> format_datetime_for_paragraph(now)
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    'now'
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    # We can go backwards and forwards a little while and be pretty.
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    >>> format_datetime_for_paragraph(now - datetime.timedelta(0, 40))
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    '40 seconds ago'
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    >>> format_datetime_for_paragraph(now + datetime.timedelta(0, 30))
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    'in 29 seconds'
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    >>> format_datetime_for_paragraph(now - datetime.timedelta(0, 245))
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    '4 minutes ago'
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    >>> format_datetime_for_paragraph(now + datetime.timedelta(0, 3500))
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    'in 58 minutes'
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    # If we go back further, it gets a bit ugly.
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    >>> format_datetime_for_paragraph(earlier - datetime.timedelta(1))
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    'yesterday at 10:35am'
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    >>> format_datetime_for_paragraph(date)
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    'on 2009-05-20 at  9:19pm'
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    >>> format_datetime_for_paragraph(earlier + datetime.timedelta(1))
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    'tomorrow at 10:35am'
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    """
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    dt = get_datetime(datetime_or_seconds)
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    now = datetime.datetime.now()
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    delta = dt - now
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    # If the date is earlier than now, we want to either say something like
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    # '5 days ago' or '25 seconds ago', 'yesterday at 08:54' or
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    # 'on 2009-03-26 at 20:09'.
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    # If the time is within one hour of now, we show it nicely in either
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    # minutes or seconds.
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    if abs(delta).days == 0 and abs(delta).seconds <= 1:
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        return 'now'
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    if abs(delta).days == 0 and abs(delta).seconds < 60*60:
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        if abs(delta) == delta:
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            # It's in the future.
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            prefix = 'in '
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            suffix = ''
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        else:
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            prefix = ''
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            suffix = ' ago'
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        # Show the number of minutes unless we are within two minutes.
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        if abs(delta).seconds >= 120:
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            return (prefix + '%d minutes' + suffix) % (abs(delta).seconds / 60)
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        else:
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            return (prefix + '%d seconds' + suffix) % (abs(delta).seconds)
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    if dt < now:
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        if dt.date() == now.date():
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            # Today.
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            return dt.strftime('today at %l:%M%P')
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        elif dt.date() == now.date() - datetime.timedelta(days=1):
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            # Yesterday.
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            return dt.strftime('yesterday at %l:%M%P')
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    elif dt > now:
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        if dt.date() == now.date():
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            # Today.
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            return dt.strftime('today at %l:%M%P')
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        elif dt.date() == now.date() + datetime.timedelta(days=1):
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            # Tomorrow
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            return dt.strftime('tomorrow at %l:%M%P')
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    return dt.strftime('on %Y-%m-%d at %l:%M%P')