Formal timestamp formats have already been avoided by most of the online social services. Instead of displaying "2009-11-11 15:33" or "Thu, November 11,2009 15:33PM", they use more user friendly, warmer and more readable time formatting like "2 minutes ago" or "4 days ago".

Instead of formal time formatting, Twitter uses more readable timestamp formatting

CuteTime is a jQuery plugin that provides easy conversion of timestamps to formats much cuter. It also has the ability to dynamically update and/or automatically update timestamps on a controlled interval.

While there are other similar tools out there written in JavaScript, PHP and C#, this plugin does exactly what it promisis.

If used as function, a string containing a cuter version of the provided time stamp is returned.

CuteTime jQuery Plugin can be used as a function.

CuteTime jQuery Plugin can also be used via selectors. In this case, it replaces the text of the provided object with CuteTime.

CuteTime jQuery Plugin can also be used via selectors.

You can get more details about the plugin and download it from here.

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