jquery-timeago VS date

Compare jquery-timeago vs date and see what are their differences.

jquery-timeago

:clock8: The original jQuery plugin that makes it easy to support automatically updating fuzzy timestamps (e.g. "4 minutes ago"). (by rmm5t)

date

Date() for humans (by matthewmueller)
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jquery-timeago date
2 0
3,819 1,480
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2.7 0.0
8 months ago over 1 year ago
JavaScript JavaScript
MIT License MIT License
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jquery-timeago

Posts with mentions or reviews of jquery-timeago. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-26.
  • How to handle 'time ago' and site caching?
    2 projects | /r/Wordpress | 26 Apr 2022
    http://timeago.yarp.com/ - says that it will only apply the 'timeago' function on time tags with a "timeago" class. Is that what you're using?
    2 projects | /r/Wordpress | 26 Apr 2022
    Thanks, I've tested and this works with https://timeago.yarp.com/ . General question, will this be lighter performance-wise vs using a PHP function to change datetime appearance & Low ttl on the page (This is how it was done before)?

date

Posts with mentions or reviews of date. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing jquery-timeago and date you can also consider the following projects:

Luxon - ⏱ A library for working with dates and times in JS

dayjs - ⏰ Day.js 2kB immutable date-time library alternative to Moment.js with the same modern API

date-fns - ⏳ Modern JavaScript date utility library ⌛️

moment - Parse, validate, manipulate, and display dates in javascript.

countdown.js - Super simple countdowns.

moment-timezone - Timezone support for moment.js

timeago.js - :clock8: :hourglass: timeago.js is a tiny(2.0 kb) library used to format date with `*** time ago` statement.

timezone-js

fecha - Lightweight and simple JS date formatting and parsing