Issue in getting the Time of creation of a tweet - twitter

Question

I'm using Tweetsharp library to display the latest 5 tweets posted by a user. I've created an app at dev/twitter and got the required tokens. I want to show the time lapsed since the tweet was posted. But the "tweet.CreatedDate" method from the Tweetsharp library is provides a time 5-6 hrs before the time of tweeting.
public DataSet GenerateTweetDataSet()
{
string time = "";
int hrs = 0, mins = 0;
int days = 0;
TwitterService service = new TwitterService(ConsumerKey, ConsumerSecret);
service.AuthenticateWith(AccessToken, AccessTokenSecret);
ListTweetsOnUserTimelineOptions tweetoptions = new ListTweetsOnUserTimelineOptions();
tweetoptions.Count = 5;
tweetoptions.ScreenName = _twitter.ScreenName;
var tweets = service.ListTweetsOnUserTimeline(tweetoptions);
DataTable TweetsTable = new DataTable();
TweetsTable.Columns.Add("Text");
TweetsTable.Columns.Add("DateTime");
TweetsTable.Columns.Add("Id");
if (tweets != null)
foreach (var tweet in tweets)
{
string UserName = tweet.User.ScreenName;
string TweetText = tweet.Text;
DateTime tweetDate = tweet.CreatedDate;
DateTime currentDate = DateTime.Now;
time = (currentDate - tweetDate).Days.ToString();
TimeSpan t1 = currentDate.Subtract(tweetDate);
mins = (Int32)t1.TotalMinutes;
hrs = (Int32)t1.TotalHours;
days = (Int32)t1.TotalDays;
if (mins < 60)
{
time = mins + " mins ago";
}
else if (mins > 60 && hrs <= 24)
{
time = hrs + " hours ago";
}
else if (hrs > 24 && days < 365)
{
time = days + " days ago";
}
else if (days > 365)
{
time = "over a year ago";
}
long id = tweet.Id;
TweetsTable.Rows.Add(TweetText, time, id);
}
DataSet ds = new DataSet();
ds.Tables.Add(TweetsTable);
return ds;
}
Can someone please point where I'm going wrong or how to fix this issue.
If not then, is there a better/simpler way to get the tweets? Any sample code without using any API library?
Any help will be appreciated.

Answer 1

Literal litAuthor = (Literal)e.Item.FindControl("litAuthor");
Literal litTime = (Literal)e.Item.FindControl("litTime");
HyperLink btnTwitter = (HyperLink)e.Item.FindControl("btnTwitter");
TwitterStatus twitterStatus = (TwitterStatus)e.Item.DataItem;
if (litAuthor != null)
{
if (twitterStatus != null)
{
TimeSpan diff = DateTime.Now - twitterStatus.CreatedDate;
if (diff.Days > 0)
{
litTime.Text = twitterStatus.CreatedDate.ToString("dd MMM yyyy");
}
else if (diff.Hours < 24)
{
litTime.Text = diff.Hours.ToString() + "h";
}
else
{
litTime.Text = diff.Minutes.ToString() + "m";
}
litAuthor.Text = twitterStatus.Author.ScreenName;
btnTwitter.Text = twitterStatus.Text;
btnTwitter.NavigateUrl = "http://twitter.com/" + twitterStatus.User.ScreenName + "/statuses/" + twitterStatus.IdStr;
}
}