Allow views plugin to show end date as time hence (or ago) [#2235371]

A common use-case is to display a view of nodes with date fields and show the time hence for the end date only (and not the start date). Currently this is not possible, as any "time hence" selection in the views field configuration will always show "time hence" relation between now and the start date. There does not seem to be a way to show time hence/ago from the end date.

Please correct me if there is a way to do this, or if this issue is a duplicate.

Comments

Comment #1

brodhagen CreditAttribution: brodhagen commented 23 April 2014 at 19:19

https://drupal.org/node/2026545

This patch worked for displaying time ago from the End Date.

Comment #2

marksmith CreditAttribution: marksmith commented 7 September 2018 at 12:33

This is still a problem in the 7.x-2.10 version. Checking the "Use the End date, instead of the start date" does not work.

Comment #3

marksmith CreditAttribution: marksmith commented 8 September 2018 at 12:53

For those looking for a solution, the node mentioned by #brodhagen provided the necessary patch to the date module (see comment #9). The patch was essentially applied to version 7.x-2.10 of the module, except for the date.theme file:

diff --git a/date.theme b/date.theme
old mode 100755
new mode 100644
index 5cec8b4..7e29405
--- a/date.theme
+++ b/date.theme
@@ -378,6 +378,8 @@ function theme_date_display_interval($variables) {
     'end_date' => $dates['value2']['local']['object'],
     'interval' => $options['interval'],
     'interval_display' => $options['interval_display'],
+    'use_end_date' => !empty($options['use_end_date']) ?
+      $options['use_end_date'] : FALSE,
   );
 
   if ($return = theme('date_time_ago', $time_ago_vars)) {

It works as expected after making these changes.