Idea: Convert to time ago in words

[aparsons]

The PHP framework CakePHP has a date formatting method to convert a date into a human-friendly string like 2 months, 2 weeks, 6 days ago. What are thoughts on adding similar functionality?

• https://book.cakephp.org/3.0/en/core-libraries/time.html#formatting-relative-times
• https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/blob/3ddec46367e4b5aa6a2dc59558f4f9daf8d82c95/src/I18n/RelativeTimeFormatter.php#L94

[jmiguelsamper]

I will leave this ticket open for future discussion but currently I see a couple of difficulties on implementing it:

1. We try to mimic the Thymeleaf core #dates utilities but it currently doesn't have a similar feature
2. While getting an English language implementation seems quite straightforward, localised implementations for other languages might be difficult to achieve.

[danielfernandez]

Closing for now given lack of reported impact from users, in order to simplify towards integration in Thymeleaf core.