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 (? la microformats).

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 microformats like the cool kids.