In a new post to the Web Tech blog over on SitePoint, Toby Somerville has posted something he calls "RoughTime" - his method for displaying a more "human friendly" output of a timestamp.

When asked the time, we generally don't need to be military accurate with our response [...] we generally communicate the approximate time. i.e. 'its nearly ten' or 'its just gone half past three'. Yet on the web, time is generally shown as '12:24:13 AM', or similar — not very visitor friendly.

His RoughTime uses two switch statements to map the hour and minute values to different strings. For example, minutes between 15 and 20 become "quarter past" and the hours are changed over from numeric versions to their word counterparts.

Chris Shiflett has posted some new information about this year's O'Reilly Open Source Conference - this year's Lightning Talks.

The talks are collections of 5-minute talks given by the presenters (PHP community) with topics ranging from new ideas to Q&A sessions, even rants. If you'd like to enter your suggestions for a lightning talk of your own, be sure to get them in before July 21st, 2006!

Chris Shiflett has posted some new information about this year's O'Reilly Open Source Conference - this year's Lightning Talks.

The talks are collections of 5-minute talks given by the presenters (PHP community) with topics ranging from new ideas to Q&A sessions, even rants. If you'd like to enter your suggestions for a lightning talk of your own, be sure to get them in before July 21st, 2006!