def relative_datestring(self):
"""
Return this block's date in a human-readable format. If the date
is None, returns the empty string.
"""
if self.date is None:
return ''
locale = to_locale(get_language())
delta = self.date - self.current_time
try:
relative_date = format_timedelta(delta, locale=locale)
# Babel doesn't have translations for Esperanto, so we get
# a KeyError when testing translations with
# ?preview-lang=eo. This should not happen with any other
# languages. See https://github.com/python-babel/babel/issues/107
except KeyError:
relative_date = format_timedelta(delta)
date_has_passed = delta.days < 0
# Translators: 'absolute' is a date such as "Jan 01,
# 2020". 'relative' is a fuzzy description of the time until
# 'absolute'. For example, 'absolute' might be "Jan 01, 2020",
# and if today were December 5th, 2020, 'relative' would be "1
# month".
date_format = _(
u"{relative} ago - {absolute}") if date_has_passed else _(
u"in {relative} - {absolute}")
return date_format.format(
relative=relative_date,
absolute='{date}',
)
def relative_datestring(self):
"""
Return this block's date in a human-readable format. If the date
is None, returns the empty string.
"""
if self.date is None:
return ''
locale = to_locale(get_language())
delta = self.date - self.current_time
try:
relative_date = format_timedelta(delta, locale=locale)
# Babel doesn't have translations for Esperanto, so we get
# a KeyError when testing translations with
# ?preview-lang=eo. This should not happen with any other
# languages. See https://github.com/python-babel/babel/issues/107
except KeyError:
relative_date = format_timedelta(delta)
date_has_passed = delta.days < 0
# Translators: 'absolute' is a date such as "Jan 01,
# 2020". 'relative' is a fuzzy description of the time until
# 'absolute'. For example, 'absolute' might be "Jan 01, 2020",
# and if today were December 5th, 2020, 'relative' would be "1
# month".
date_format = _(u"{relative} ago - {absolute}") if date_has_passed else _(u"in {relative} - {absolute}")
return date_format.format(
relative=relative_date,
absolute='{date}',
)
