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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() {
+        jQuery('abbr[class*=timeago]').timeago();
+      });
+    </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:
+
+    <abbr class="timeago" title="2008-07-17T09:24:17Z">about 1 day ago</abbr>
+
+As time passes, the timestamps will automatically update.
+
+For more usage and examples, visit: http://timeago.yarp.com/
+
+## License
+
+Licensed under the MIT:
+http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
+
+## License
+
+Copyright (c) 2008, Ryan McGeary (ryanonjavascript -[at]- mcgeary [*dot*] org)
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