Timeago is a jQuery plugin that makes it easy to support automatically updating fuzzy timestamps (e.g. "4 minutes ago" or "about 1 day ago") from ISO 8601 formatted dates and times embedded in your HTML (à la microformats).
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First, load jQuery and the plugin:
<script src="jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="jquery.timeago.js" type="text/javascript"></script>Now, let's attach it to your timestamps on DOM ready - put this in the head section:
<script type="text/javascript">
jQuery(document).ready(function() {
$("abbr.timeago").timeago();
});
</script>This will turn all abbr elements with a class of timeago and an ISO 8601 timestamp in the title (conforming to the datetime design pattern microformat):
<abbr class="timeago" title="2011-12-17T09:24:17Z">December 17, 2011</abbr>into something like this:
<abbr class="timeago" title="December 17, 2011">about 1 day ago</abbr>HTML5 <time> elements are also supported:
<time class="timeago" datetime="2011-12-17T09:24:17Z">December 17, 2011</time>As time passes, the timestamps will automatically update.
For more usage and examples: http://timeago.yarp.com/
For different language configurations: visit the locales directory.
| Version | Notes |
|---|---|
| 1.3.x | (compare) Added updateFromDOM function |
| 1.2.x | (compare) Added cutoff setting |
| 1.1.x | (compare) Added update function |
| 1.0.x | (compare) locale updates; bug fixes; AMD wrapper |
| 0.11.x | (compare) natural rounding; locale updates; |
| 0.10.x | (compare) locale updates |
| 0.9.x | (compare) microsecond support; bug fixes |
| 0.8.x | (compare) <time> element support; bug fixes |
| 0.7.x | (compare) locale function overrides; unit tests |
| ... | ... |
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