Translate the time ago string

This is fixed in next snapshot, release to 4.10 will come soon.
See http://drupal.org/cvs?commit=408280

Hey Mike,

It seems to me that it could be my mistake. format_interval function can take the third argument $langcode. However, when i checked the format_interval, which delegates to format_plural which in his turn delegates to the t function, it is supposed to take the global language as translatable language context. My function to theme the time is like this:

/**
 *
 * @return String Formatted date.
 */
function _theme_time_ago($time) {
  return t('@time ago', array('@time' => format_interval(($_SERVER['REQUEST_TIME'] - $time), 1)));
}

Sidenote: in heartbeat this is fixed to this issue, not in the last stable release i think. So in 10 it will be available.

Now in custom module, it depends ofcourse on how you trigger it.
So within drupal the format_interval would have to translate the units (being year, month, etc ...).
I tested it on the demosite and translated "@count hours" and "@count ago". This is visible in dutch (sorry for that), but proves it should work as long as you use the heartbeat helper function or the format_interval itself.
http://heartbeat.menhireffect.be/nl

Are you helped with this?

Yes, i know it's not about heartbeat ;) that's why i am not reopening this.

But as i see it, as long as you use format_interval without the langcode OR putting the $GLOBALS['language']->language in there manually, it should work. Meaning all parts of the generated time are translatable. Or they should be. I had that problem once in a site too and it happened to be that the global $language was incorrect.

regards

I am not sure what you mean by this.
I mean that format_interval does that exactly, without having to pass the language. (well the t-function does, where it's delegating too)