I was working on my Twitter extension to display my most recent tweet and I wanted to display how long ago I tweeted.  I was able to acquire some code which I tweaked a bit to fit my needs.  Check it out!

This method accepts two dates that you want to compare.  For example: In my case, date1 is "DateTime.Now" and date2 is the Tweet date (whenever my most recent tweet was).  I will have a full post on the twitter extension you see above soon!

Take a look at the code below!

    private string GetDifferenceDate(DateTime date1, DateTime date2)
    {
        if (DateTime.Compare(date1, date2) >= 0)
        {
            TimeSpan ts = date1.Subtract(date2);
            // if more than 1 day ago
            if (ts.Days > 0)
                return string.Format("{0} days, {1} hours, {2} minutes", 
                ts.Days, ts.Hours, ts.Minutes);
            else
                return string.Format("{0} hours, {1} minutes", ts.Hours, ts.Minutes);

        }
        else
            return "Not valid";
    }