relative dates?

[eluser]delay[/eluser]
I was just looking at doing something similar. There is a good function that handles this on the php site. http://us.php.net/time Look for the "timeDiff" function. It will do exactly what you want. You can also easily convert your mysql dates into the timestamp formats it needs by loading the date helpers.

Code:

$this->load->helper('date');
$unixdate = mysql_to_unix($mysqldate);

then call the timeDiff function from the above link.

Code:

$TimeAgo = $this->timeDiff($unixdate,false, 1, minute);