Question

I’m going to sound like such a noob, but basically all I would like to achieve is a script which would automatically refresh, as to speak, the time something was posted. For example;

<div id="update" data-time="2012-08-16 20:48:11">Posted 12 secs ago</div>

*then, 12 seconds later*

<div id="update" data-time="2012-08-16 20:48:11">Posted 24 secs ago</div>
It doesn’t have to be formatted like that, it was just an example I thought I could use.

I would prefer not to use an external plugin for this task also I wouldn’t just like it in seconds, I would prefer it to be like “x secs” then when it had reached 60 seconds turn into “x mins” etc.

You’d be helping me out a lot if I could have a response, whether its just a link to point me in the right direction or a section of code I could use. Thank you 🙂

Answer 1

Please look at JavaScript’s raw setTimeout() and setInterval() http://www.w3schools.com/js/js_timing.asp