Comments on: Custom Django filters: displaying a date as “[time delta] ago”

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 20:06:50 +0000

I actually made a custom filter too, I just prefer being able to slap a single filter on a date object instead of having to put three on there.

francois — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:46:34 +0000

Well I knew of truncatewords but not of ‘cut’. I still have a lot to learn about Django (Clusterify is my first real project using it)

I posted this mostly because I like the multiple ways in which you can extend the framework.

piramida — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:09:34 +0000

That’s a nice solution but I would go with a simpler approach like {{mydate|timesince|truncatewords:2|cut(“.”)}}

Which is not as fool-proof in case timesince returns something malformed, though.

piramida — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:07:34 +0000

That’s a nice solution but I would go with a simpler approach like {{mydate|timesince|truncatewords:2}}

Which is not as full-proof in case timesince returns something malformed, though.