How can I convert a timestamp to a user-friendly time string

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Published on 2010-04-22T20:01:40Z Indexed on 2010/04/22 20:03 UTC
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I want to be able to present "today" and "yesterday" for recent dates in my application. I've got a date formatter in use currently to show dates (retrieved from data records) and will keep using this for anything more than a couple of days old. I just really like the way the SMS app in the iPhone shows dates for recent messages and would like to emulate this.

The time-stamps that I have to work with are generated on a server that the phone downloads the data records from. All times are therefore generated at UTC (i.e. GMT) time.

I've been fiddling about with this for a while the solutions I've devised just seem horribly long-winded.

Can anyone suggest how to implement a method that could do this?

Cheers - Steve.

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