specify locale when calling timeago

[devth]

Sometimes I like to use en and others I need en-short. Is there a way to specify this when I'm calling timeago? e.g.

var locales = {short: {...}, long: {....}}; // assuming these are proper jquery.timeago locales
$('time.short').timeago({locale: locales.short});
$('time.long').timeago({locale: locales.long});

[yairEO]

yes!!!! this is so important!!!

[yairEO]

managed to add support for this. Below is the beginning of the code and you can see all place where I used the variable locale and do the same in your plugin: (just pass a settings object like so {locale:'en-short'

(function (factory) {
  if (typeof define === 'function' && define.amd) {
    // AMD. Register as an anonymous module.
    define(['jquery'], factory);
  } else {
    // Browser globals
    factory(jQuery);
  }
}(function ($) {
  var locale = 'en'; // default locale

  $.timeago = function(timestamp, settings) {
    if( settings && settings.locale && $.timeago.settings.locales[settings.locale] )
        locale = settings.locale;

    if (timestamp instanceof Date) {
      return inWords(timestamp, settings);
    } else if (typeof timestamp === "string") {
      return inWords($.timeago.parse(timestamp), settings);
    } else if (typeof timestamp === "number") {
      return inWords(new Date(timestamp), settings);
    } else {
      return inWords($.timeago.datetime(timestamp), settings);
    }
  };
  var $t = $.timeago;

  $.extend($.timeago, {

    settings: {
      refreshMillis: 60000,
      allowPast: true,
      allowFuture: false,
      localeTitle: false,
      cutoff: 0,
      locales: {
        'en' : {
          prefixAgo     : null,
          prefixFromNow : null,
          suffixAgo     : "ago",
          suffixFromNow : "from now",
          inPast        : 'any moment now',
          seconds       : "less than a minute",
          minute        : "about a minute",
          minutes       : "%d minutes",
          hour          : "about an hour",
          hours         : "about %d hours",
          day           : "a day",
          days          : "%d days",
          month         : "about a month",
          months        : "%d months",
          year          : "about a year",
          years         : "%d years",
          wordSeparator : " ",
          numbers       : []
        },
        'short-en' : {
          prefixAgo     : null,
          prefixFromNow : null,
          suffixAgo     : "",
          suffixFromNow : "",
          seconds       : "1m",
          minute        : "1m",
          minutes       : "%dm",
          hour          : "1h",
          hours         : "%dh",
          day           : "1d",
          days          : "%dd",
          month         : "1mo",
          months        : "%dmo",
          year          : "1yr",
          years         : "%dyr",
          wordSeparator : " ",
          numbers       : []
          }
      }
    },

    inWords: function(distanceMillis) {
      if(!this.settings.allowPast && ! this.settings.allowFuture) {
          throw 'timeago allowPast and allowFuture settings can not both be set to false.';
      }

      var $l = this.settings.locales[locale];
      var prefix = $l.prefixAgo;
      var suffix = $l.suffixAgo;
      if (this.settings.allowFuture) {
        if (distanceMillis < 0) {
          prefix = $l.prefixFromNow;
          suffix = $l.suffixFromNow;
        }
      }

      if(!this.settings.allowPast && distanceMillis >= 0) {
        return this.settings.locales[locale].inPast;
      }
   ....