Shorter elapsed time messages (also, don't show seconds, since it tends

to keep changing all the time, but only when the user interacts with
mitter, which is kinda weird sometimes.)

mitterlib/ui/helpers/timesince.py

@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ def timesince(timestamp):
     if since <= 0:
         return _('just now')
 
-    result = []
+    result = None
     for (seconds, name) in chunks:
         part = since / seconds
         if part < 1:
@@ -65,13 +65,11 @@ def timesince(timestamp):
 
         # all divs in Python 2.x are integers; we'll have to check this again
         # when we change to Python 3.
+        elapsed = '%s %s' % (part, name(part))
+        result = _('%s ago') % (elapsed)
+        break
 
-        result.append('%s %s' % (part, name(part)))
-        since -= (seconds * part)
+    if not result:
+        result = _('less than a minute ago')
 
-    # since now only have seconds (which are out of our "chunks")
-    seconds = N_('second', 'seconds', since)
-    result.append('%d %s' % (since, seconds))
-
-    whole_message = ', '.join(result)
-    return _('%s ago') % (whole_message)
+    return result