ToFriendlyDateString
The idea behind the ToFriendlyDateString() method is representing dates in a user friendly way. For example, when displaying a news article on a webpage, you might want articles that were published one day ago to have their publish dates represented as "yesterday at 12:30 PM". Or if the article was publish today, show the date as "Today, 3:33 PM".
Source
namespace Utils
{
public static class Extensions
{
public static string ToFriendlyDateString(this DateTime Date)
{
string FormattedDate = "";
if (Date.Date == DateTime.Today)
{
FormattedDate = "Today";
}
else if (Date.Date == DateTime.Today.AddDays(-1))
{
FormattedDate = "Yesterday";
}
else if (Date.Date > DateTime.Today.AddDays(-6))
{
// *** Show the Day of the week
FormattedDate = Date.ToString("dddd").ToString();
}
else
{
FormattedDate = Date.ToString("MMMM dd, yyyy");
}
//append the time portion to the output
FormattedDate += " @ " + Date.ToString("t").ToLower();
return FormattedDate;
}
}
}Example
using Utils;
......
DateTime dt = new DateTime(2008, 2, 10, 8, 48, 20);
Console.WriteLine(dt.ToFriendlyDateString());