Dynamic dates (for example, a date would be "1 hour ago", "Yesterday at 7:02 am", "Wednesday at 7:02 pm", depending on distance)

I'm also looking for this! Any luck yet?

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There is a formatter called the 'interval' format, you see it on the Display Fields screen. This should display a date field this way.

In views there is a custom date format (on the date field configuration page), but it only allows for one line of custome php date format, with a reference to http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php. a recent comment shows this code:

A smaller "time since incident" example that takes a datetime string as input :

<?php function timesince( $tsmp ) {

$diffu = array(  'seconds'=>2, 'minutes' => 120, 'hours' => 7200, 'days' => 172800, 'months' => 5259487,  'years' =>  63113851 );
$diff = time() - strtotime($tsmp);
$dt = '0 seconds ago';
foreach($diffu as $u => $n){ if($diff>$n) {$dt = floor($diff/(.5*$n)).' '.$u.' ago';} }

return $dt;
}

?>

// example output: 10 seconds ago / 90 minutes ago / 16 months ago / 3 years ago

How could i insert this function in the date field format?

As noted in #4, there is already a formatter for this, on both the Display Fields screen and in Views. In Views it looks like this: