relative-date

I'm unable to follow the Moment.js documentation , and need some help with setting it up. I've referenced the moment.min.js file properly on my webpage like so: <script src="/js/moment.min.js"></script> Coming to the HTML part of my webpage, I have two different datetime's on the same page: Published Date <time class="pubdate" datetime="2012-06-09T12:32:10-04:00" pubdate> June 09, 2012 </time> Last Modified Date <time class="updated" itemprop="dateModified" datetime="2012-06-09T12:32:10-04:00"> June 9, 2012 ~ 12:32 </time> Important! The relative date parsing shouldn't go beyond "yesterday".

I'm looking for a nice JS snippet to convert a timestamp (e.g. from Twitter API) to a nice user friendly relative time (e.g. 2 seconds ago, one week ago etc). Anyone care to share some of their favourite methods (preferably not using plugins)? Well it's pretty easy if you aren't overly concerned with accuracy. What wrong with the trivial method? function timeDifference(current, previous) { var msPerMinute = 60 * 1000; var msPerHour = msPerMinute * 60; var msPerDay = msPerHour * 24; var msPerMonth = msPerDay * 30; var msPerYear = msPerDay * 365; var elapsed = current - previous; if (elapsed <