An Easy jQuery Timeago 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”). Timeago was built by Ryan McGeary while standing on the shoulders of giants. John Resig wrote about a similar approach. The verbiage was based on the distance_of_time_in_words ActionView helper in Ruby on Rails.

Take Full Advantage of Page Caching

Timeago was originally built for use with Yarp.com to timestamp comments. It’s so cool plugin because of several reasones.

• 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 microformats like the cool kids.

Enjoy this cool plugin

Timeago is under MIT License and you can view the plugin here.

Website: http://timeago.yarp.com/

Download: http://timeago.yarp.com/jquery.timeago.js

License: MIT License