TipMaster - Time Ago
Improves the TipMaster’s forums, Tek-Tips and Eng-Tips, by adding a relative fuzzy explanation after dates on the following pages :
- Thread list
- Thread
- FAQ list
- MVP list
- Search result
- Started thread list
- Replied to thread list
The script does its best to correctly calculate the time. On the thread pages both date and time are specified, but on the other pages only the date. When time is known, the script calculates with the precision of minutes otherwise with days.
On the thread pages the current server time specified in tooltips is used, otherwise is calculated knowing that TipMaster servers are located at GMT-5. An alternative
would be to use document.lastModified to avoid calculations exposed to errors due to unsynchronized daylight saving times around the world. document.lastModified
will certainly contain wrong data when the pages are reused from the browser cache, but as far as I observed, that happens only when the browser restores the previous
session.
Screenshot
sample rendering without TipMaster - Time Ago
sample rendering with TipMaster - Time Ago
Usage
None. There is nothing interactive.
Configuration
Configuration not really supported.
But you could add ( or remove ) some of the time amounts declared in the unit array.
This script may clash with other Greasemonkey scripts, so you may have to adjust the execution order in your browser :
- TipMaster - No Old New parses the post time, so the relative time added by this script inside the same element will make the parsing fail. Set this script to run after TipMaster - No Old New.
Versions
- 0.0 - February 2012
- Initial release.
Plans
- If other pages with dates are found, make the script to work on those too.
- Maybe add an exact alternative of the original date in a tooltip.
Download
You can find the related files on GitHub in my Greasemonkey-script repository’s tipmaster-time-ago directory :
- TipMaster_-_Time_Ago.user.js - script