What?
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”). View the examples, and enjoy.
- You opened this page about a minute ago.
- This page was last modified about 15 hours ago.
- Ryan was born 40 years ago.
Why?
Timeago was originally built for use with Yarp.com to timestamp comments.
- Avoid timestamps dated “1 minute ago” even though the page was opened 10 minutes ago; timeago refreshes automatically.
- You can take full advantage of page caching in your web applications, because the timestamps aren’t calculated on the server.
- You get to use standard HTML5 tags.
