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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:

Now, let's attach it to your timestamps on DOM ready - put this in the head section:

This will turn all <time> elements with a class of timeago and adatetime attribute formatted according to theISO 8601 standard:

December 17, 2011

into something like this:

about 1 day ago

<abbr> elements (or any other HTML elements) are also supported (this is forlegacy microformat supportand was originally supported by the library before the time element was introduced to HTML5):

December 17, 2011

As time passes, the timestamps will automatically update.

If you want to update a timestamp programatically later, call the updatefunction with a new ISO8601 timestamp of Date object. For example:

$("time#some_id").timeago("update", "2013-12-17T09:24:17Z"); // or $("time#some_id").timeago("update", new Date());

For more usage and examples: http://timeago.yarp.com/

For different language configurations: visit the locales directory.

Settings

cutoff : Return the original date if time distance is older than cutoff (miliseconds).

// Display original dates older than 24 hours jQuery.timeago.settings.cutoff = 10006060*24;

Changes

Author

Ryan McGeary (@rmm5t)

License

MIT License