There are two kinds of times that you can pull out of fuzzytime

1. a fuzzy time:
   • less than an hour ago
   • a couple of days ago
2. an implicit time
   • 5 minutes ago
   • 3 weeks ago

include the jquery.fuzzytime.js or jquery.fuzzytime.min.js after your jquery script inclusion in your html <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.3/jquery.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.fuzzytime.min.js"></script>

send your Twitter, Facebook, Unix or Javascript formatted timestamp to the $.fuzzytime() function var myFaceBookDate = '2010-10-19T02:57:48+0000'; var myPrettyTime = $.fuzzytime(myFaceBookDate) // returns something like 'a couple weeks ago'

to make the date explicit ex. '35 minutes ago', send a value of true as the second argument to $.fuzzytime() var myTwitterDate = 'Tue Oct 19 14:01:57 +0000 2010'; var myPrettyImplicitTime = $.fuzzytime(myTwitterDate,true); // returns something like '3 days ago'

the Kohana project's date helper

rmm5t for the iso8601 method to make facebook possible

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