Relative Timestamps Update Plugin - timeago

timeago is a smart and useful jQuery Plugin for updating fuzzy timestamps in your document automatically and intelligently. It supports almost all the major languages.

For Example:

• You opened this page x minutes ago. 
• This page was last modified x months ago.
• Ryan was born xx years ago.
• ...

You might also like:

• jQuery Plugin for Input Field Time Format and Spinner - Time Entry
• Lightweight Human Readable Date & Time Library - timeago.js
• Simple Human-Friendly Relative Date Formatting Plugin - optimusTime
• User-Friendly Date Formatting Plugin - prettydate
• JS Date Format & validate Library - Moment.js

Basic Usage:

1. Include jQuery library and jQuery timeago plugin on your page

<script src="jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="jquery.timeago.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

2.  Add a date timestamp in ISO 8601 format

<abbr class="timeago" title="2013-04-01T06:24:17Z">December 17, 2011</abbr>
<time class="timeago" datetime="2013-04-01T06:24:17Z">December 17, 2011</time>

3. Call the plugin

<script type="text/javascript">
   jQuery(document).ready(function() {
     $("abbr.timeago").timeago();
   });
</script>

4. Optional settings.

refreshMillis: 60000,
allowPast: true,
allowFuture: false,
localeTitle: false,
cutoff: 0,
autoDispose: true,
strings: {
  prefixAgo: null,
  prefixFromNow: null,
  suffixAgo: "ago",
  suffixFromNow: "from now",
  inPast: 'any moment now',
  seconds: "less than a minute",
  minute: "about a minute",
  minutes: "%d minutes",
  hour: "about an hour",
  hours: "about %d hours",
  day: "a day",
  days: "%d days",
  month: "about a month",
  months: "%d months",
  year: "about a year",
  years: "%d years",
  wordSeparator: " ",
  numbers: []
}

Changelog:

v1.6.6 (2019-04-13)

• Fixed for jQuery 3.4

v1.6.5 (2019-02-25)

• locale improvements

v1.6.4 (2019-02-01)

• locale improvements

v1.6.3 (2018-02-24)

• Wraped locales in UMD wrappers; locale improvements

v1.6.1 (2017-07-18)

• fix paren mismatch in umd wrapper

v1.6.0 (2017-07-15)

• Wraped locales in UMD wrappers

v1.5.4 (2017-01-20)

• update and bugfix

v1.5.3 (2016-06-25)

• update and bugfix

v1.5.2 (2016-02-13)

• update

v1.5.1 (2016-02-04)

• update

v1.5.0 (2016-01-22)

• update

v1.4.3 (2015-09-19)

• update

v1.4.2 (2015-08-29)

• update

v1.4.1 (2014-05-02)

• Added allowPast setting

v1.4.0 (2014-03-03)

• Added updateFromDOM function; bug fixes; bower support

v1.3.2 (2014-02-28)

• update.

v1.3.1 (2013-12-27)

• Added support for 2-digit time zone designators

v1.3.0 (2013-06-17)

• Added updateFromDOM function

v1.2.0 (2013-05-19)

• Added cutoff setting

 

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This awesome jQuery plugin is developed by rmm5t. For more Advanced Usages, please check the demo page or visit the official website.