Title: [Plugin: Timeago] human_time_diff()
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: Timeago] human_time_diff()

 *  [scribu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scribu/)
 * (@scribu)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-timeago-human_time_diff/)
 * Instead of using a jQuery plugin, you should consider using [human_time_diff()](http://xref.yoast.com/trunk/nav.html?_functions/human_time_diff.html)
   that comes with WP.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/timeago/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/timeago/)

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 *  Thread Starter [scribu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scribu/)
 * (@scribu)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-timeago-human_time_diff/#post-1433245)
 * A related plugin: [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/localtime/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/localtime/)
 *  [asadkn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/asadkn/)
 * (@asadkn)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-timeago-human_time_diff/#post-1433341)
 * As I mentioned in my post at [WPSplash](http://wpsplash.com/wordpress-timeago-fuzzy-dates-plugin/),
   there are few reasons I chose jQuery timeago plugin and modified the wordpress
   date/time to use relative time based on visitor’s timezone.
 * Sure anyone can use human_time_diff. It wouldn’t need a plugin if we had to just
   use that. The difference here is that the fuzzy date/time here is **updating 
   live**. “5 mins ago” will be “10 minutes ago” if you have had the page open for
   5 minutes.
 * Similarly, it uses microformats as I mentioned in my post and the original date/
   time is visible ‘on hover’ the date. And the time displayed is relative to user’s
   local time and not to whatever the default wordpress timezone is.
 * I didn’t think I would need to explain this more in-depth. Thanks for the feedback.
 *  Thread Starter [scribu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scribu/)
 * (@scribu)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-timeago-human_time_diff/#post-1433349)
 * My appologies for not reading the post first.
 * The “updating live” feature is really interesting.

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