A few minutes ago a user in the ColdFusion IRC channel asked about an ActionScript relative time script. What is a relative time script? It translates something like "December 10" to "8 days ago". Turns out Google found a bunch of examples here. I took the first example, a JavaScript one, and rewrote it. This version is ColdFusion 8 only since it uses <, but you could change that in about 2 nanoseconds for a cf7 and earlier version. I'll add this up to CFLib a bit later probably.

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1  <cfscript>
2  function relativeTime(pastdate) {
3      var delta = dateDiff("s", pastDate, now());
4  
5      if(delta < 60) {
6       return "less than a minute ago";
7      } else if(delta < 120) {
8       return "about a minute ago";
9      } else if(delta < (45*60)) {
10       return round(delta/60) & " minutes ago";
11      } else if(delta < (90*60)) {
12       return "about an hour ago";
13      } else if(delta < (24*60*60)) {
14          return round(delta/3600) & " hours ago";
15      } else if(delta < (48*60*60)) {
16       return "1 day ago";
17      } else {
18          return round(delta/86400) & " days ago";
19      }
20  }
21  </cfscript>
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23  
24  <cfset pastdate = dateAdd("n", -9400, now())>
25  <cfoutput>Paris had dignity #relativeTime(pastdate)#</cfoutput>

I'll update the wiki too (got to represent the ColdFusion!)