how long it is since a forum post was created

Tuesday 23 June 2009 6:21:29 am

There are probably much neater solutions but if need be you can do something like:

{def $date_difference = sub( currentdate(), $node.object.published )
     $days = floor( div( $date_difference, 86400 ) )
     $hours_mins = mod( $date_difference, 86400 )
     $hours = floor( div( $hours_mins, 3600 ) )
     $mins = floor( div( mod( $hours_mins, 3600 ), 60) ) }

And display it with:

{$days} Days, {$hours} hours {$mins} minutes ago.

Of course, caching would cause the time to remain frozen. Plus you might want to add some logic to change Days to Day if there is only 1 etc.