# rmm5t/jquery-timeago

:clock8: The original jQuery plugin that makes it easy to support automatically updating fuzzy timestamps (e.g. "4 minutes ago").

Repository: https://github.com/rmm5t/jquery-timeago
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/jquery-timeago
Homepage: http://timeago.yarp.com
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: jquery, timeago, time, javascript
Last push: 2026-08-02T01:02:59+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 66/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 95, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 6620, "days_push": 32, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3793, forks 691 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:18.878172+00:00)

## What it is
timeago is a jQuery plugin that converts ISO 8601 timestamps embedded in HTML into automatically updating fuzzy relative times like '4 minutes ago'. It supports many locales and settings such as cutoff, allowFuture, and allowPast.

## Use cases
- display relative timestamps like '4 minutes ago' on a webpage
- automatically refresh timestamps without reloading the page
- show comment or post ages in a jQuery web app
- localize fuzzy time strings in many languages
- enable full page caching by rendering timestamps client-side

## When to choose
- your project already uses jQuery
- you need simple, localized, auto-updating relative timestamps in HTML
- you want server-side page caching with client-side time rendering

## When to avoid
- your app does not use jQuery
- you need a framework-agnostic or modern vanilla JS solution
- you need timezone-aware date formatting beyond fuzzy relative times

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: maintenance
- function: date-time, internationalization, ui-components
- domain: web-development, frontend
- platform: browser
- tags: jquery-plugin, fuzzy-timestamps, relative-time, microformats, iso8601, localization, javascript

## Member repositories
- rmm5t/jquery-timeago (main) score 66

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:18.878172+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:27:02.522755+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/rmm5t/jquery-timeago (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:18.878172+00:00, sha 885b2e21f2f3)
  - homepage: http://timeago.yarp.com (fetched 2026-08-29T09:22:07.441701+00:00, sha 1276fdda4e29)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.