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  1. jb510 revised this gist Mar 27, 2015. 1 changed file with 13 additions and 0 deletions.
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    }
    return $date_range;
    }


    /* To actually make use of this in WordPress you'd feed it something like this where the dates are stored as unix time stamps
    $start_date = get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), 'jb_start_timestamp', true );
    $end_date = get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), 'jb_end_timestamp', true );
    if ( (!empty($start_date)) || (!empty($end_date)) ) {
    echo '<span class="pretty-date-range"---->';
    echo jb_verbose_date_range( $start_date , $end_date );
    echo '<!-- pretty-date-range -->';
    }
    */
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    }
    }
    return $date_range;
    }
    }
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    <?php
    /**
    * Verbose Beautified Date Range
    *
    * @access public
    * @param mixed $start_date
    * @param mixed $end_date
    * @return $date_range (beautified date range)
    * @license WTFPL
    *
    * @author Jon Brown <jb@9seeds.com---->
    * @since 1.0
    */

    function jb_verbose_date_range($start_date = '',$end_date = '') {

    $date_range = '';

    // If only one date, or dates are the same set to FULL verbose date
    if ( empty($start_date) || empty($end_date) || ( date('FjY',$start_date) == date('FjY',$end_date) ) ) { // FjY == accounts for same day, different time
    $start_date_pretty = date( 'F jS, Y', $start_date );
    $end_date_pretty = date( 'F jS, Y', $end_date );
    } else {
    // Setup basic dates
    $start_date_pretty = date( 'F j', $start_date );
    $end_date_pretty = date( 'jS, Y', $end_date );
    // If years differ add suffix and year to start_date
    if ( date('Y',$start_date) != date('Y',$end_date) ) {
    $start_date_pretty .= date( 'S, Y', $start_date );
    }

    // If months differ add suffix and year to end_date
    if ( date('F',$start_date) != date('F',$end_date) ) {
    $end_date_pretty = date( 'F ', $end_date) . $end_date_pretty;
    }
    }

    // build date_range return string
    if( ! empty( $start_date ) ) {
    $date_range .= $start_date_pretty;
    }

    // check if there is an end date and append if not identical
    if( ! empty( $end_date ) ) {
    if( $end_date_pretty != $start_date_pretty ) {
    $date_range .= ' - ' . $end_date_pretty;
    }
    }
    return $date_range;
    }