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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 - 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="Decebmer 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.
Author
Other
Copyright (c) 2008-2012, Ryan McGeary (ryan -[at]- mcgeary [dot] org)