转自:http://www.cnblogs.com/zhulin/archive/2011/03/28/1997481.html

- (NSString *)intervalSinceNow: (NSString *) theDate
{

NSDateFormatter
*date=[[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[date setDateFormat:
@"yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"];
NSDate
*d=[date dateFromString:theDate];

NSTimeInterval late
=[d timeIntervalSince1970]*1;


NSDate
* dat = [NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSinceNow:0];
NSTimeInterval now
=[dat timeIntervalSince1970]*1;
NSString
*timeString=@"";

NSTimeInterval cha
=now-late;

if (cha/3600<1) {
timeString
= [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%f", cha/60];
timeString
= [timeString substringToIndex:timeString.length-7];
timeString
=[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@分钟前", timeString];

}
if (cha/3600>1&&cha/86400<1) {
timeString
= [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%f", cha/3600];
timeString
= [timeString substringToIndex:timeString.length-7];
timeString
=[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@小时前", timeString];
}
if (cha/86400>1)
{
timeString
= [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%f", cha/86400];
timeString
= [timeString substringToIndex:timeString.length-7];
timeString
=[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@天前", timeString];

}
[date release];
return timeString;
}