Question

I’m looking for some way to make a relative text timestamp but using future instead of past (not “2 days ago” but “in 2 days”).

I’m making a personal task manager for my personal usages and I’d like it to tell me “this task is due in 2 days”. But I can’t seem to find nothing to convert a DateTime to that kind of timestamp.

Answer 1

Based on all the replies I finally made one myself which meets all my requierements:

public static string RemainingTimeBeforeDateTime(DateTime dateTime, int level = 1)
{
    int howDeep = 0;
    string result = "";

    TimeSpan dueDuration = dateTime - DateTime.Now;

    double days = dueDuration.Days;
    double hours = dueDuration.Hours;
    double minutes = dueDuration.Minutes;

    if (days > 0)
    {
        howDeep++;
        result = days + "d ";
    }

    if (((howDeep != level) && (days != 0)) || ((days == 0) && (hours > 0)))
    {
        howDeep++;
        result = result + hours + "h ";
    }

    if (((howDeep != level) && (hours != 0)) || ((hours == 0) && (minutes > 0)))
    {
        result = result + minutes + "m ";
    }

    return result;
}