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TimeAgo

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PrimeFaces Extensions was first released January 23 2012.

Source

XHTML page
Managed bean


<p>
    You've opened this page
    <pe:timeAgo value="#{basicTimeAgoController.created}"
                titlePattern="MMMM dd yyyy hh:mm a" style="font-weight:bold" />.
</p>
<p>
    PrimeFaces Extensions was first released
    <pe:timeAgo value="#{basicTimeAgoController.firstRelease}"
                titlePattern="MMMM dd yyyy" style="font-weight:bold"/>.
</p>


@Named
@ViewScoped
public class BasicTimeAgoController implements Serializable {

    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

    private final LocalDateTime created = LocalDateTime.now();

    private final LocalDateTime firstRelease = LocalDate.of(2012, Month.JANUARY, 23).atStartOfDay();

    public LocalDateTime getCreated() {
        return created;
    }

    public LocalDateTime getFirstRelease() {
        return firstRelease;
    }

}

Use Cases

Documentation pe:timeAgo

Attributes (move mouse over the names to see data types)

Name	Description
id	Unique identifier of the component in a namingContainer.
rendered	Boolean value to specify the rendering of the component, when set to false component will not be rendered.
binding	An el expression referring to a server side UIComponent instance in a backing bean.
value	Date, ZonedDateTime or LocalDateTime object to render.
widgetVar	Name of the client side widget.
styleClass	Style class of the main container element. Default value is null.
style	Style of the main container element. Default value is null.
locale	String or java.util.Locale representing user locale. Default is a locale specified in view root.
titlePattern	Pattern defining how the date object should be formatted in the HTML title attribute.