README.md

jQuery Chrono plugin

jQuery Chrono provides syntactic sugar around JavaScript's native setTimeout and setInterval functions.

To execute some code in 5 minutes, instead of writing:

    setTimeout(function() { ... }, 300000); // how many zeros is that?

or the slightly more readable:

    setTimeout(function() { ... }, 5 * 60 * 1000); // 5... (multiplies in head) min

now you can just write:

    $.after(5, "minutes", function() { ... }); // :)

setTimeout becomes $.after and setInterval becomes $.every.

Usage

These are all valid calls:

    $.after(100, function() { ... });           // 100 milliseconds
    $.after("9.7", function() { ... });         // 9.7 milliseconds
    $.after("50sec", function() { ... });       // 50 seconds
    $.after(7, "mins", function() { ... });     // 7 minutes
    $.after("33", "hours", function() { ... }); // 33 hours

$.every, for creating intervals, has the same exact syntax as $.after.

Valid time units include:

• millisecond (default)

• second

• minute

• hour

• day

along with all their common abbreviations and pluralizations.

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Copyright (c) 2011, Arthur Klepchukov (at gmail)