How to show a human-readable "time ago"

Question

My user Last login at 15:50:09 January 25, 2012 IST how can I show this as “10 minutes ago”. Is there any js?

Answer 1

I always used timeago , this is a jQuery plugin, very easy to use. The example on the main page is self-evident:

<script src="jquery.timeago.js" type="text/javascript"></script> $("abbr.timeago").timeago(); 

Converts this markup:

 <abbr class="timeago" title="2008-07-17T09:24:17Z">July 17, 2008</abbr> 

in that:

 <abbr class="timeago" title="July 17, 2008">3 years ago</abbr> 

Using datejs is also useful in some cases, especially if you want to convert dates in a humanoid format to a timestamp, but in your case I don't think you really need it.