# 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).
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## Usage
First, load jQuery and the plugin:
```html
<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:
```html
<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](http://microformats.org/wiki/datetime-design-pattern)):
```html
<abbr class="timeago" title="2011-12-17T09:24:17Z">December 17, 2011</abbr>
```
into something like this:
```html
<abbr class="timeago" title="December 17, 2011">about 1 day ago</abbr>
```
HTML5 `<time>` elements are also supported:
```html
<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/](http://timeago.yarp.com/)
**For different language configurations**: visit the [`locales`](https://github.com/rmm5t/jquery-timeago/tree/master/locales) directory.
## Changes
| Version | Notes |
|---------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 1.4.x | ([compare][compare-1.4]) Added allowPast setting |
| 1.3.x | ([compare][compare-1.3]) Added updateFromDOM function; bug fixes; bower support |
| 1.2.x | ([compare][compare-1.2]) Added cutoff setting |
| 1.1.x | ([compare][compare-1.1]) Added update function |
| 1.0.x | ([compare][compare-1.0]) locale updates; bug fixes; AMD wrapper |
| 0.11.x | ([compare][compare-0.11]) natural rounding; locale updates; |
| 0.10.x | ([compare][compare-0.10]) locale updates |
| 0.9.x | ([compare][compare-0.9]) microsecond support; bug fixes |
| 0.8.x | ([compare][compare-0.8]) `<time>` element support; bug fixes |
| 0.7.x | ([compare][compare-0.7]) locale function overrides; unit tests |
| ... | ... |
[compare-1.4]: https://github.com/rmm5t/jquery-timeago/compare/v1.3.2...v1.4.3
[compare-1.3]: https://github.com/rmm5t/jquery-timeago/compare/v1.2.0...v1.3.2
[compare-1.2]: https://github.com/rmm5t/jquery-timeago/compare/v1.1.0...v1.2.0
[compare-1.1]: https://github.com/rmm5t/jquery-timeago/compare/v1.0.2...v1.1.0
[compare-1.0]: https://github.com/rmm5t/jquery-timeago/compare/v0.11.4...v1.0.2
[compare-0.11]: https://github.com/rmm5t/jquery-timeago/compare/v0.10.1...v0.11.4
[compare-0.10]: https://github.com/rmm5t/jquery-timeago/compare/v0.9.3...v0.10.1
[compare-0.9]: https://github.com/rmm5t/jquery-timeago/compare/v0.8.2...v0.9.3
[compare-0.8]: https://github.com/rmm5t/jquery-timeago/compare/v0.7.2...v0.8.2
[compare-0.7]: https://github.com/rmm5t/jquery-timeago/compare/v0.6.2...v0.7.2
## Author
[Ryan McGeary](http://ryan.mcgeary.org) ([@rmm5t](http://twitter.com/rmm5t))
## Other
[MIT License](http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php)
Copyright (c) 2008-2015, Ryan McGeary (ryan -[at]- mcgeary [*dot*] org)