Humanized dates in C#

I've been looking for a way to make dates in the Forum sections of the site more user-friendly. Did some googling on how to accomplish this in either SQL or C#, but somehow that came up completely blank.

I did manage to find some scripts for some stuff I never heard about, and 1 javascript file. Just my luck. I seriously dislike javascript. Maxxim from the wrox forum will most likely be chuckling now, since he's been advising me to brush up my skills in Javascript ;)

So here's the translation in C#. Since I'm not sure about the copyright notice, I'll just slap a copy of the original in:


/**
* C# translation: Copyright (c) 2007 Peter Schmitz
* http://entropia-online.blogspot.com
*
* Original Javascript code: Copyright (c) 2007 Blake Householder
* http://www.blake8086.com/
*
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* obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation
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* modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies
* of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
* furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
*
* The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
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*
* THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
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* MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
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*
*
*/

public string HumanizeDate(DateTime date)
{
DateTime dateNow = DateTime.Now;

// Determine the start of the date's week
DateTime startOfWeek = (date.Date - TimeSpan.FromDays((double)date.DayOfWeek));

// We'll use this variable for monthly comparison
int intMonthCompare = ((date.Year * 12 + date.Month) - (dateNow.Year * 12 + dateNow.Month));

// Do the monthly comparison first, as that's the biggest possible way to group
if (intMonthCompare > 1)
{
return "Beyond next month";
}

if (intMonthCompare < -1)
{
return "Older";
}

if (intMonthCompare == 1)
{
return "Next month";
}

if (intMonthCompare == -1)
{
return "Last month";
}

// Now do the same, but in weeks
TimeSpan ts = (startOfWeek - dateNow.Date);
if (ts.Days > 28)
{
return "Five weeks from now";
}

if (ts.Days > 21)
{
return "Four weeks from now";
}

if (ts.Days > 14)
{
return "Three weeks from now";
}

if (ts.Days > 7)
{
return "Two weeks from now";
}

if (ts.Days > 0)
{
return "Next week";
}

if (ts.Days < -35)
{
return "Five weeks ago";
}

if (ts.Days < -28)
{
return "Four weeks ago";
}

if (ts.Days < -21)
{
return "Three weeks ago";
}

if (ts.Days < -14)
{
return "Two weeks ago";
}

if (ts.Days < -7)
{
return "Last week";
}

// Nothing found so far. Let's see if it's tomorrow, today, or yesterday
ts = date.Date - dateNow.Date;

if (ts.Days == 1)
{
return "Tomorrow";
}

if (ts.Days == 0)
{
return "Today";
}

if (ts.Days == -1)
{
return "Yesterday";
}

// Still nothing? Must be a different day in this week then
return date.DayOfWeek.ToString();
}