Formatted date down-counter - help!

Rails
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I’d like to have a count down to a certain date, but display it in
words, such as “123 days away” or something. I’m aware of the function
“distance_of_time_in_words_to_now()”, which will display “about 6 hours”
or “12 days” or something like that, but how can I get it to reverse?
Pass it a date for future reference, then it will error or be negative,
right?

Any thoughts? Thanks…

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rh wrote:

I’d like to have a count down to a certain date, but display it in
words, such as “123 days away” or something. I’m aware of the function
“distance_of_time_in_words_to_now()”, which will display “about 6 hours”
or “12 days” or something like that, but how can I get it to reverse?
Pass it a date for future reference, then it will error or be negative,
right?

Any thoughts? Thanks…

You want distance_of_time_in_words
http://api.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActionView/Helpers/DateHelper.html#M000466

@time_to_event = distance_of_time_in_words(Time.now, 123.days.from_now)
@time_to_event #=> ‘123 days’

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Alex W. wrote:

rh wrote:

I’d like to have a count down to a certain date, but display it in
words, such as “123 days away” or something. I’m aware of the function
“distance_of_time_in_words_to_now()”, which will display “about 6 hours”
or “12 days” or something like that, but how can I get it to reverse?
Pass it a date for future reference, then it will error or be negative,
right?

Any thoughts? Thanks…

You want distance_of_time_in_words
Peak Obsession

@time_to_event = distance_of_time_in_words(Time.now, 123.days.from_now)
@time_to_event #=> ‘123 days’

Thanks, but won’t that always display ‘123 days’ (which was probably
just to show how it works)? How can I pass a date format for about a
year ahead of time?

Essentially:

@time_to_event = distance_of_time_in_words(Time.now, ‘Sat May 12
05:00:00 Easter Standard Time 2006’)
@time_to_event #=> ‘365 days’

Then tomorrow, when you visit the site, it will say “364 days” then “363
days” etc…

I think I just need the format - can I pass the MySQL datetime format?

Thanks!

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Nevermind. I had a typo. Thanks a lot!