NSDateComponentsFormatter should have a property to render "ago"

Originator:steipete
Number:rdar://22050103 Date Originated:29-Jul-2015 02:52 PM
Status:Open Resolved:
Product:Developer Tools Product Version:8.4
Classification:Enhancement Reproducible:Always
 
Summary:
We show a table where items are created some time in the past. “3 weeks ago” or “1 day ago”.

Before we used TTTTimeIntervalFormatter (https://github.com/mattt/FormatterKit/blob/master/FormatterKit/TTTTimeIntervalFormatter.h) which has this feature. NSDateComponentsFormatter seems like a great replacement, unfortunately it doesn’t has present/pastDeicticExpressions. So we get “3 weeks” or “about 3 weeks” but not “3 weeks ago” in a language consistent way (german would be vor 3 Tagen, so reverse).

This seems like an obvious omission and should be added in a future release.

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