# timeago: a jQuery plugin
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Timeago is a 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 (à la microformats).
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## Usage
First, load jQuery and the plugin:
```html
```
Now, let's attach it to your timestamps on DOM ready - put this in the head
section:
```html
```
This will turn all `