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Copyright (c) 2009 James F. Herdman
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Sometimes it's more important for your users to know roughly when something happened versus the precise date such as "5 days ago".
Traditionally this sort of transformation has been done on the server side. The problem with this is that it becomes difficult to cache a page when its content is changing constantly. By using JavaScript we can still have these descriptive relative time-stamps behave dynamically, but still be able to cache the page.
This Git repository has branches for each supported JavaScript framework in addition to the supporting extensions to the Date object. To use the plugin for a particular framework, merely checkout the correspondingly named brach.
When using the plugin, you must first include the Date extensions.
- jQuery (1.2.6, 1.3.2)
- Mootools (1.2.1)