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# timeago: a jQuery plugin
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).
## Usage
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:
< pre >
jQuery(document).ready(function() {
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jQuery('abbr.timeago').timeago();
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});
< / pre >
This will turn all abbr elements with a class of timeago and an ISO 8601 timestamp in the title:
< abbr class = "timeago" title = "2008-07-17T09:24:17Z" > July 17, 2008< / abbr >
into something like this:
2009-11-01 10:21:37 -05:00
< abbr class = "timeago" title = "July 17, 2008" > about 1 day ago< / abbr >
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As time passes, the timestamps will automatically update.
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**For more usage and examples**: [http://timeago.yarp.com/ ](http://timeago.yarp.com/ )
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**For different language configurations**: [http://gist.github.com/6251 ](http://gist.github.com/6251 )
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## Author
[Ryan McGeary ](http://ryan.mcgeary.org ) ([@rmm5t ](http://twitter.com/rmm5t ))
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## Other
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[MIT License ](http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php )
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Copyright (c) 2008-2010, Ryan McGeary (ryanonjavascript -[at]- mcgeary [*dot*] org)