Title: get_the_time problem
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# get_the_time problem

 *  [davidswain](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidswain/)
 * (@davidswain)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get_the_time-problem/)
 * Hello
 * I have a category on my blog called status which is kinda like status updates
   on facebook or whatever. It is displayed usign the following function:
 * `
    function currently() { $myposts = get_posts('showposts=1');
 *  foreach($myposts as $post) :
    setup_postdata($post); $timestamp = get_the_time("
   Y-m-d H:m:s"); $time = nicetime($timestamp); echo "<p id=\"currently\">David ".
   get_the_content() . " <abbr title=\"" . str_replace(" ", "T", $timestamp) . "\"
   >" . $time . "</abbr></p>"; endforeach;
 * }
 * with the function nicetime smply changing the time to xx days ago or whatever
 * `
    function nicetime($date) { if(empty($date)) { return "No date provided"; }
 *  $periods = array("second", "minute", "hour", "day", "week", "month", "year","
   decade");
    $lengths = array("60","60","24","7","4.35","12","10");
 *  $now = time();
    $unix_date = strtotime($date);
 *  // check validity of date
    if(empty($unix_date)) { return "Bad date"; }
 *  // is it future date or past date
    if($now > $unix_date) { $difference = $now-
   $unix_date; $tense = "ago";
 *  } else {
    $difference = $unix_date - $now; $tense = "from now"; }
 *  for($j = 0; $difference >= $lengths[$j] && $j < count($lengths)-1; $j++) {
    
   $difference /= $lengths[$j]; }
 *  $difference = round($difference);
 *  if($difference != 1) {
    $periods[$j].= "s"; }
 *  return "$difference $periods[$j] {$tense}";
    }
 * This all works well with one except. the message stays the say, but the time (
   xx days ago) changes on every page with the loop on to the latest date to the
   content in the loop, not the content displayed by the currently function. Does
   anyone know a) why this is and b) how i ca change it so it display the proper
   date. Eventually i want that function currently to be bigger to include events
   stored in a category called performances (im a performer) but i dont want to 
   go on till i can get this resolved.
 * thanks in advance
 * David

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