diff --git a/README.markdown b/README.markdown
index 66e767f8..3969b064 100644
--- a/README.markdown
+++ b/README.markdown
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Now, let's attach it to your timestamps on DOM ready:
 
     <pre>
       jQuery(document).ready(function() {
-        jQuery('abbr[class*=timeago]').timeago();
+        jQuery("abbr.timeago").timeago();
       });
     </pre>
 
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ This will turn all abbr elements with a class of timeago and an ISO 8601 timesta
 
 into something like this:
 
-    <abbr class="timeago" title="2008-07-17T09:24:17Z">about 1 day ago</abbr>
+    <abbr class="timeago" title="July 17, 2008">about 1 day ago</abbr>
 
 As time passes, the timestamps will automatically update.
 
@@ -41,4 +41,4 @@ As time passes, the timestamps will automatically update.
 
 [MIT License](http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php)
 
-Copyright (c) 2008-2009, Ryan McGeary (ryanonjavascript -[at]- mcgeary [*dot*] org)
+Copyright (c) 2008-2010, Ryan McGeary (ryanonjavascript -[at]- mcgeary [*dot*] org)
diff --git a/index.html b/index.html
index 88f3d0c3..1d7c0440 100644
--- a/index.html
+++ b/index.html
@@ -5,12 +5,13 @@
     <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
     <meta name="microid" content="mailto+http:sha1:566841e568e84b46c92d2291b44b836dfddc5c42" />
     <title>timeago: a jQuery plugin</title>
-    <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.2.6/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
+    <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
     <script src="jquery.timeago.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
-    <script src="test.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
+    <script src="test/test_helpers.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
     <script type="text/javascript">
       jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
-        $('abbr[class*=timeago]').timeago();
+        prepareDynamicDates();
+        $("abbr.timeago").timeago();
 
         $("#prog_date").text(jQuery.timeago(new Date()));
         $("#prog_string").text(jQuery.timeago("2008-07-17"));
@@ -54,8 +55,9 @@ <h3>What?</h3>
         timestamps (e.g. "4 minutes ago" or "about 1 day ago").  <a href="jquery.timeago.js">Download</a>, view
         the examples, and enjoy.
       </p>
+      <noscript><p class="example"><strong>Turn on javascript, loser!</strong></p></noscript>
       <p class="example">
-        You opened this page <abbr class="loaded timeago">sometime before now <span class="help">(turn on javascript, loser)</span></abbr>. <span class="help">(This will update every minute. Wait for it.)</span>
+        You opened this page <abbr class="loaded timeago">when you opened the page</abbr>. <span class="help">(This will update every minute. Wait for it.)</span>
       </p>
       <p class="example">
         This page was last modified <abbr class="modified timeago">sometime before now [browser might not support document.lastModified]</abbr>.
@@ -84,7 +86,7 @@ <h3>How?</h3>
       </p>
       <pre>
 jQuery(document).ready(function() {
-  jQuery('abbr[class*=timeago]').timeago();
+  jQuery("abbr.timeago").timeago();
 });</pre>
       <p class="how">
         This will turn all <tt>abbr</tt> elements with a class
@@ -96,7 +98,7 @@ <h3>How?</h3>
         into something like this:
       </p>
       <pre>
-&lt;abbr class=&quot;timeago&quot; title=&quot;2008-07-17T09:24:17Z&quot;&gt;<em><abbr class="timeago" title="2008-07-17T09:24:17Z">time ago</abbr></em>&lt;/abbr&gt;</pre>
+&lt;abbr class=&quot;timeago&quot; title=&quot;July 17, 2008&quot;&gt;<em><abbr class="timeago" title="2008-07-17T09:24:17Z">time ago</abbr></em>&lt;/abbr&gt;</pre>
       <p>
         which yields: <abbr class="timeago" title="2008-07-17T09:24:17Z">July 17, 2008</abbr>.  As time passes, the timestamps will automatically update.
       </p>
@@ -144,6 +146,20 @@ <h3>When?</h3>
         Timeago was conceived <abbr class="timeago" title="2008-07-17T02:30:00-0500">on July 17, 2008</abbr>.  <span class="help">(Yup, that's powered by timeago too)</span>
       </p>
 
+      <h3>What else?</h3>
+      <p class="example">
+        HTML5 has a new <tt>time</tt> tag and timeago supports it too.
+      </p>
+      <pre>
+&lt;time class=&quot;<em>timeago</em>&quot; datetime=&quot;<em>2008-07-17T09:24:17Z</em>&quot;&gt;July 17, 2008&lt;/time&gt;</pre>
+      <p class="how">
+        Attach timeago like so:
+      </p>
+      <pre>
+jQuery(document).ready(function() {
+  jQuery("time.timeago").timeago();
+});</pre>
+
       <h3>Huh?</h3>
       <p class="last">
         Need a Rails helper to make those fancy microformat <tt>abbr</tt> tags?  Fine, here ya go:
@@ -160,7 +176,7 @@ <h3>Huh?</h3>
         <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php">MIT
         License</a>
       </div>
-      Copyright &copy; 2008-2009 <a href="http://ryan.mcgeary.org">Ryan McGeary</a>
+      Copyright &copy; 2008-2010 <a href="http://ryan.mcgeary.org">Ryan McGeary</a>
       (<a href="http://twitter.com/rmm5t">@rmm5t</a>)
     </div>
 
diff --git a/jquery.timeago.js b/jquery.timeago.js
index 54524a68..7bce6902 100644
--- a/jquery.timeago.js
+++ b/jquery.timeago.js
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 /*
- * timeago: a jQuery plugin, version: 0.7.2 (2009-07-30)
- * @requires jQuery v1.2 or later
+ * timeago: a jQuery plugin, version: 0.8.2 (2010-02-16)
+ * @requires jQuery v1.2.3 or later
  *
  * Timeago is a jQuery plugin that makes it easy to support automatically
  * updating fuzzy timestamps (e.g. "4 minutes ago" or "about 1 day ago").
@@ -11,13 +11,13 @@
  * Licensed under the MIT:
  * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2008-2009, Ryan McGeary (ryanonjavascript -[at]- mcgeary [*dot*] org)
+ * Copyright (c) 2008-2010, Ryan McGeary (ryanonjavascript -[at]- mcgeary [*dot*] org)
  */
 (function($) {
   $.timeago = function(timestamp) {
     if (timestamp instanceof Date) return inWords(timestamp);
     else if (typeof timestamp == "string") return inWords($.timeago.parse(timestamp));
-    else return inWords($.timeago.parse($(timestamp).attr("title")));
+    else return inWords($.timeago.datetime(timestamp));
   };
   var $t = $.timeago;
 
@@ -83,6 +83,12 @@
       s = s.replace(/T/," ").replace(/Z/," UTC");
       s = s.replace(/([\+-]\d\d)\:?(\d\d)/," $1$2"); // -04:00 -> -0400
       return new Date(s);
+    },
+    datetime: function(elem) {
+      // jQuery's `is()` doesn't play well with HTML5 in IE
+      var isTime = $(elem).get(0).tagName.toLowerCase() == "time"; // $(elem).is("time");
+      var iso8601 = isTime ? $(elem).attr("datetime") : $(elem).attr("title");
+      return $t.parse(iso8601);
     }
   });
 
@@ -98,13 +104,23 @@
   };
 
   function refresh() {
-    var date = $t.parse(this.title);
-    if (!isNaN(date)) {
-      $(this).text(inWords(date));
+    var data = prepareData(this);
+    if (!isNaN(data.datetime)) {
+      $(this).text(inWords(data.datetime));
     }
     return this;
   }
 
+  function prepareData(element) {
+    element = $(element);
+    if (!element.data("timeago")) {
+      element.data("timeago", { datetime: $t.datetime(element) });
+      var text = $.trim(element.text());
+      if (text.length > 0) element.attr("title", text);
+    }
+    return element.data("timeago");
+  }
+
   function inWords(date) {
     return $t.inWords(distance(date));
   }
@@ -119,5 +135,6 @@
   }
 
   // fix for IE6 suckage
-  document.createElement('abbr');
+  document.createElement("abbr");
+  document.createElement("time");
 })(jQuery);
diff --git a/test/index.html b/test/index.html
index 70a72276..0c90e1b5 100644
--- a/test/index.html
+++ b/test/index.html
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
   <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
 
   <!-- use http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js for the latest jQuery -->
-  <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
+  <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
 
   <!-- http://dev.jquery.com/view/trunk/qunit/testrunner.js -->
   <script src="testrunner.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ <h2 id="userAgent"></h2>
   <div id="main">
     <h2>Short term</h2>
 
-    <p>You opened this page <abbr class="loaded timeago testShortTerm">sometime before now</abbr>.</p>
+    <p>You opened this page <abbr class="loaded timeago testShortTerm">(you shouldn't see this)</abbr>.</p>
 
     <p>
       This page was last modified <abbr class="modified timeago">sometime before
@@ -66,12 +66,15 @@ <h2>Long term</h2>
 
     <h2>Other formats</h2>
 
-    <p>Date only: <abbr class="timeago" title="2008-02-26">(you shouldn't see this)</abbr>.</p>
+    <p>Date only (abbr element): <abbr class="timeago" title="2008-02-26">(you shouldn't see this)</abbr>.</p>
+    <p>Date only (time element): <time class="timeago" datetime="2008-02-26">(you shouldn't see this)</time>.</p>
+    <p>Date only (friendly tooltip): <abbr id="testTooltip" class="timeago" title="2008-02-26">February 26th</abbr>.</p>
+    <p>Date only (default tooltip): <abbr id="defaultTooltip" class="timeago" title="2008-02-26"> </abbr>.</p>
 
     <h2>Errors</h2>
 
     <p>Bad (letters): <abbr class="bad timeago" title="bleh">(this should be displayed)</abbr>.</p>
-    <p>Bad (numbers): <abbr class="bad timeago" title="1234">(this should be displayed)</abbr>.</p>
+    <p>Bad (numbers): <abbr class="bad timeago" title="91234">(this should be displayed)</abbr>.</p>
     <p>Bad (blank): <abbr class="bad timeago" title="">(this should be displayed)</abbr>.</p>
     <p>Bad (missing): <abbr class="bad timeago">(this should be displayed)</abbr>.</p>
 
@@ -166,82 +169,10 @@ <h2>Settings</h2>
     </ul>
   </div>
 
+  <script src="test_helpers.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
   <script type="text/javascript">
     //<![CDATA[
     (function ($) {
-      function zeropad(num) {
-        return ((num < 10) ? '0' : '') + num;
-      }
-
-      function iso8601(date) {
-        return date.getUTCFullYear()
-          + '-' + zeropad(date.getUTCMonth() + 1)
-          + '-' + zeropad(date.getUTCDate())
-          + 'T' + zeropad(date.getUTCHours())
-          + ':' + zeropad(date.getUTCMinutes())
-          + ':' + zeropad(date.getUTCSeconds()) + 'Z';
-      }
-
-      function loadPigLatin() {
-        $.timeago.settings.strings = {
-          suffixAgo    : 'ago-hay',
-          suffixFromNow: 'omNow-fray',
-          seconds      : 'ess-lay an-thay a-hay inute-may',
-          minute       : 'about-hay a-hay inute-may',
-          minutes      : '%d inutes-may',
-          hour         : 'about-hay an-hay hour-hay',
-          hours        : 'about-hay %d hours-hay',
-          day          : 'a-hay ay-day',
-          days         : '%d ays-day',
-          month        : 'about-hay a-hay onth-may',
-          months       : '%d onths-may',
-          year         : 'about-hay a-hay ear-yay',
-          years        : '%d years-yay'
-        };
-      }
-
-      function loadRussian() {
-        (function() {
-          function numpf(n, f, s, t) {
-            // f - 1, 21, 31, ...
-            // s - 2-4, 22-24, 32-34 ...
-            // t - 5-20, 25-30, ...
-            var n10 = n % 10;
-            if ((n10 == 1) && ((n == 1) || (n > 20) )) {
-              return f;
-            } else if ((n10 > 1) && (n10 < 5) && ((n > 20) || (n < 10))) {
-              return s;
-            } else {
-              return t;
-            }
-          }
-
-          $.timeago.settings.strings = {
-            prefixAgo: null,
-            prefixFromNow: 'через',
-            suffixAgo: 'назад',
-            suffixFromNow: null,
-            seconds: 'меньше минуты',
-            minute: 'минуту',
-            minutes: function(value) { return numpf(value, '%d минута', '%d минуты', '%d минут'); },
-            hour: 'час',
-            hours: function(value) { return numpf(value, '%d час', '%d часа', '%d часов'); },
-            day: 'день',
-            days: function(value) { return numpf(value, '%d день', '%d дня', '%d дней'); },
-            month: 'месяц',
-            months: function(value) { return numpf(value, '%d месяц', '%d месяца', '%d месяцев'); },
-            year: 'год',
-            years: function(value) { return numpf(value, '%d год', '%d года', '%d лет'); }
-          };
-        })();
-      }
-
-      function loadYoungOldYears() {
-        $.extend($.timeago.settings.strings, {
-          years: function(value) { return (value < 21) ? '%d young years' : '%d old years'; }
-        });
-      }
-
       function testElements(selector, test) {
         var elements       = $(selector);
         var numberOfTests  = elements.length;
@@ -261,254 +192,279 @@ <h2>Settings</h2>
 
       $.timeago.settings.allowFuture = true;
 
-      $('abbr.loaded').attr('title', iso8601(new Date()));
-      $('abbr.modified').attr('title', iso8601(new Date(document.lastModified)));
+      prepareDynamicDates();
+
+      $("abbr.timeago").timeago();
+      $("time.timeago").timeago();
 
-      $('abbr.timeago').timeago();
+      var tooltip = $("#testTooltip").data("timeago");
 
-      $('abbr.todate').each(function () {
+      $("abbr.todate").each(function () {
         var date = $.timeago.parse(this.title);
         $(this).text(date.toUTCString());
       });
 
-      $('abbr.towords').each(toWords);
+      $("abbr.towords").each(toWords);
 
       loadYoungOldYears();
-      $('abbr.toyoungold').each(toWords);
+      $("abbr.toyoungold").each(toWords);
 
       loadPigLatin();
-      $('abbr.tolatin').each(toWords);
+      $("abbr.tolatin").each(toWords);
 
       loadRussian();
-      $('abbr.torussian').each(toWords);
+      $("abbr.torussian").each(toWords);
 
-      module('Valid date');
+      module("Valid date");
 
-      test('Text in abbr tag should be replaced', function () {
-        ok(testElements('abbr.timeago', function (element) {
+      test("Text in abbr tag should be replaced", function () {
+        ok(testElements("abbr.timeago", function (element) {
           return (element.html() !== "(you shouldn't see this)");
-        }), 'All text was replaced');
+        }), "All text was replaced");
       });
 
-      module('Invalid date');
+      test("Text in time tag should be replaced", function () {
+        ok(testElements("time.timeago", function (element) {
+          return (element.html() !== "(you shouldn't see this)");
+        }), "All text was replaced");
+      });
+
+      module("Invalid date");
 
-      test('Text in abbr should not be replaced', function () {
-        ok(testElements('abbr.bad', function (element) {
-          return (element.html() === '(this should be displayed)');
-        }), 'No text was replaced');
+      test("Text in abbr should not be replaced", function () {
+        ok(testElements("abbr.bad", function (element) {
+          return (element.html() === "(this should be displayed)");
+        }), "No text was replaced");
       });
 
-      module('Short term');
+      module("Short term");
 
       test("Dates shorter than a minute should be replaced with short term text", function () {
-        ok(testElements('abbr.testShortTerm', function (element) {
-          return (element.html() === 'less than a minute ago');
-        }), 'All short term dates correctly parsed');
+        ok(testElements("abbr.testShortTerm", function (element) {
+          return (element.html() === "less than a minute ago");
+        }), "All short term dates correctly parsed");
       });
 
-      module('Long term');
+      module("Long term");
 
       test("Dates older than one year should contain the word 'year'", function () {
-        ok(testElements('abbr.testLongTerm', function (element) {
+        ok(testElements("abbr.testLongTerm", function (element) {
           return (element.html().match(/year/));
-        }), 'All long term dates correctly parsed');
+        }), "All long term dates correctly parsed");
+      });
+
+      module("Data object");
+
+      test("should set timeago data object", function () {
+        ok(tooltip, "data set");
+        ok(tooltip.datetime, "datetime set");
+      });
+
+      module("Tooltip");
+
+      test("should set title to original text contents", function () {
+        ok($("#testTooltip").attr("title") == "February 26th", "correctly set");
+      });
+
+      test("should leave title alone if no text text content", function () {
+        ok($("#defaultTooltip").attr("title") == "2008-02-26", "correctly set");
       });
 
-      module('Parsing');
+      module("Parsing");
 
       // Note, different browsers behave slightly different
       var correctMatch = /Mon, 18 Dec 1978 17:17:00 GMT/;
 
-      test('From Z', function () {
-        ok(($('#testParsing1').html().match(correctMatch)), 'Correctly parsed');
+      test("From Z", function () {
+        ok(($("#testParsing1").html().match(correctMatch)), "Correctly parsed");
       });
 
-      test('From -00:00', function () {
-        ok(($('#testParsing2').html().match(correctMatch)), 'Correctly parsed');
+      test("From -00:00", function () {
+        ok(($("#testParsing2").html().match(correctMatch)), "Correctly parsed");
       });
 
-      test('From -05:00', function () {
-        ok(($('#testParsing3').html().match(correctMatch)), 'Correctly parsed');
+      test("From -05:00", function () {
+        ok(($("#testParsing3").html().match(correctMatch)), "Correctly parsed");
       });
 
-      test('From -0500', function () {
-        ok(($('#testParsing4').html().match(correctMatch)), 'Correctly parsed');
+      test("From -0500", function () {
+        ok(($("#testParsing4").html().match(correctMatch)), "Correctly parsed");
       });
 
-      test('From +09:00', function () {
-        ok(($('#testParsing5').html().match(correctMatch)), 'Correctly parsed');
+      test("From +09:00", function () {
+        ok(($("#testParsing5").html().match(correctMatch)), "Correctly parsed");
       });
 
-      test('From +0900', function () {
-        ok(($('#testParsing6').html().match(correctMatch)), 'Correctly parsed');
+      test("From +0900", function () {
+        ok(($("#testParsing6").html().match(correctMatch)), "Correctly parsed");
       });
 
-      test('From blank TZ', function () {
-        ok(($('#testParsing7').html().match(/Mon, 18 Dec 1978 \d\d:17:00 GMT/)), 'Correctly parsed, assumed local time');
+      test("From blank TZ", function () {
+        ok(($("#testParsing7").html().match(/Mon, 18 Dec 1978 \d\d:17:00 GMT/)), "Correctly parsed, assumed local time");
       });
 
-      module('Wording');
+      module("Wording");
 
-      test('-120 min', function () {
-        ok(($('#testWording1').html() === 'about 2 hours from now'), 'Correctly parsed');
+      test("-120 min", function () {
+        ok(($("#testWording1").html() === "about 2 hours from now"), "Correctly parsed");
       });
 
-      test('-60 sec', function () {
-        ok(($('#testWording2').html() === 'about a minute from now'), 'Correctly parsed');
+      test("-60 sec", function () {
+        ok(($("#testWording2").html() === "about a minute from now"), "Correctly parsed");
       });
 
-      test('-30 sec', function () {
-        ok(($('#testWording3').html() === 'less than a minute from now'), 'Correctly parsed');
+      test("-30 sec", function () {
+        ok(($("#testWording3").html() === "less than a minute from now"), "Correctly parsed");
       });
 
-      test('-1 sec', function () {
-        ok(($('#testWording4').html() === 'less than a minute from now'), 'Correctly parsed');
+      test("-1 sec", function () {
+        ok(($("#testWording4").html() === "less than a minute from now"), "Correctly parsed");
       });
 
-      test('0 sec', function () {
-        ok(($('#testWording5').html() === 'less than a minute ago'), 'Correctly parsed');
+      test("0 sec", function () {
+        ok(($("#testWording5").html() === "less than a minute ago"), "Correctly parsed");
       });
 
-      test('30 sec', function () {
-        ok(($('#testWording6').html() === 'less than a minute ago'), 'Correctly parsed');
+      test("30 sec", function () {
+        ok(($("#testWording6").html() === "less than a minute ago"), "Correctly parsed");
       });
 
-      test('45 sec', function () {
-        ok(($('#testWording7').html() === 'about a minute ago'), 'Correctly parsed');
+      test("45 sec", function () {
+        ok(($("#testWording7").html() === "about a minute ago"), "Correctly parsed");
       });
 
-      test('90 sec', function () {
-        ok(($('#testWording8').html() === '2 minutes ago'), 'Correctly parsed');
+      test("90 sec", function () {
+        ok(($("#testWording8").html() === "2 minutes ago"), "Correctly parsed");
       });
 
-      test('120 sec', function () {
-        ok(($('#testWording9').html() === '2 minutes ago'), 'Correctly parsed');
+      test("120 sec", function () {
+        ok(($("#testWording9").html() === "2 minutes ago"), "Correctly parsed");
       });
 
-      test('45 min', function () {
-        ok(($('#testWording10').html() === 'about an hour ago'), 'Correctly parsed');
+      test("45 min", function () {
+        ok(($("#testWording10").html() === "about an hour ago"), "Correctly parsed");
       });
 
-      test('89 min', function () {
-        ok(($('#testWording11').html() === 'about an hour ago'), 'Correctly parsed');
+      test("89 min", function () {
+        ok(($("#testWording11").html() === "about an hour ago"), "Correctly parsed");
       });
 
-      test('90 min', function () {
-        ok(($('#testWording12').html() === 'about 2 hours ago'), 'Correctly parsed');
+      test("90 min", function () {
+        ok(($("#testWording12").html() === "about 2 hours ago"), "Correctly parsed");
       });
 
-      test('120 min', function () {
-        ok(($('#testWording13').html() === 'about 2 hours ago'), 'Correctly parsed');
+      test("120 min", function () {
+        ok(($("#testWording13").html() === "about 2 hours ago"), "Correctly parsed");
       });
 
-      test('1380 min', function () {
-        ok(($('#testWording14').html() === 'about 23 hours ago'), 'Correctly parsed');
+      test("1380 min", function () {
+        ok(($("#testWording14").html() === "about 23 hours ago"), "Correctly parsed");
       });
 
-      test('25 hours', function () {
-        ok(($('#testWording15').html() === 'a day ago'), 'Correctly parsed');
+      test("25 hours", function () {
+        ok(($("#testWording15").html() === "a day ago"), "Correctly parsed");
       });
 
-      test('48 hours', function () {
-        ok(($('#testWording16').html() === '2 days ago'), 'Correctly parsed');
+      test("48 hours", function () {
+        ok(($("#testWording16").html() === "2 days ago"), "Correctly parsed");
       });
 
-      test('696 hours', function () {
-        ok(($('#testWording17').html() === '29 days ago'), 'Correctly parsed');
+      test("696 hours", function () {
+        ok(($("#testWording17").html() === "29 days ago"), "Correctly parsed");
       });
 
-      test('30 days', function () {
-        ok(($('#testWording18').html() === 'about a month ago'), 'Correctly parsed');
+      test("30 days", function () {
+        ok(($("#testWording18").html() === "about a month ago"), "Correctly parsed");
       });
 
-      test('190 days', function () {
-        ok(($('#testWording19').html() === '6 months ago'), 'Correctly parsed');
+      test("190 days", function () {
+        ok(($("#testWording19").html() === "6 months ago"), "Correctly parsed");
       });
 
-      test('366 days', function () {
-        ok(($('#testWording20').html() === 'about a year ago'), 'Correctly parsed');
+      test("366 days", function () {
+        ok(($("#testWording20").html() === "about a year ago"), "Correctly parsed");
       });
 
-      test('1095 days', function () {
-        ok(($('#testWording21').html() === '3 years ago'), 'Correctly parsed');
+      test("1095 days", function () {
+        ok(($("#testWording21").html() === "3 years ago"), "Correctly parsed");
       });
 
-      module('Settings');
+      module("Settings");
 
-      test('suffixFromNow', function () {
-        ok($('#testLatinSettings1').html().match(/omNow-fray$/), 'Settings correctly applied');
+      test("suffixFromNow", function () {
+        ok($("#testLatinSettings1").html().match(/omNow-fray$/), "Settings correctly applied");
       });
 
-      test('suffixAgo', function () {
-        ok($('#testLatinSettings5').html().match(/ago-hay$/), 'Settings correctly applied');
-        ok($('#testRussianSettings5').html().match(/назад$/), 'Settings correctly applied');
+      test("suffixAgo", function () {
+        ok($("#testLatinSettings5").html().match(/ago-hay$/), "Settings correctly applied");
+        ok($("#testRussianSettings5").html().match(/назад$/), "Settings correctly applied");
       });
 
-      test('prefixFromNow', function () {
-        ok($('#testRussianSettings2').html().match(/^через/), 'Settings correctly applied');
+      test("prefixFromNow", function () {
+        ok($("#testRussianSettings2").html().match(/^через/), "Settings correctly applied");
       });
 
-      test('seconds', function () {
-        ok($('#testLatinSettings5').html().match(/^ess-lay an-thay a-hay inute-may/), 'Settings correctly applied');
-        ok($('#testRussianSettings5').html().match(/^меньше минуты/), 'Settings correctly applied');
+      test("seconds", function () {
+        ok($("#testLatinSettings5").html().match(/^ess-lay an-thay a-hay inute-may/), "Settings correctly applied");
+        ok($("#testRussianSettings5").html().match(/^меньше минуты/), "Settings correctly applied");
       });
 
-      test('minute', function () {
-        ok($('#testLatinSettings7').html().match(/^about-hay a-hay inute-may/), 'Settings correctly applied');
-        ok($('#testRussianSettings7').html().match(/^минуту/), 'Settings correctly applied');
+      test("minute", function () {
+        ok($("#testLatinSettings7").html().match(/^about-hay a-hay inute-may/), "Settings correctly applied");
+        ok($("#testRussianSettings7").html().match(/^минуту/), "Settings correctly applied");
       });
 
-      test('minutes', function () {
-        ok($('#testLatinSettings8').html().match(/^2 inutes-may/), 'Settings correctly applied');
-        ok($('#testRussianSettings8').html().match(/^2 минуты/), 'Settings correctly applied');
-        // TODO: Test 'минута' and 'минут'
+      test("minutes", function () {
+        ok($("#testLatinSettings8").html().match(/^2 inutes-may/), "Settings correctly applied");
+        ok($("#testRussianSettings8").html().match(/^2 минуты/), "Settings correctly applied");
+        // TODO: Test "минута" and "минут"
       });
 
-      test('hour', function () {
-        ok($('#testLatinSettings10').html().match(/^about-hay an-hay hour-hay/), 'Settings correctly applied');
-        ok($('#testRussianSettings10').html().match(/^час/), 'Settings correctly applied');
+      test("hour", function () {
+        ok($("#testLatinSettings10").html().match(/^about-hay an-hay hour-hay/), "Settings correctly applied");
+        ok($("#testRussianSettings10").html().match(/^час/), "Settings correctly applied");
       });
 
-      test('hours', function () {
-        ok($('#testLatinSettings12').html().match(/^about-hay 2 hours-hay/), 'Settings correctly applied');
-        ok($('#testRussianSettings12').html().match(/^2 часа/), 'Settings correctly applied');
-        // TODO: Test 'час' and 'часов'
+      test("hours", function () {
+        ok($("#testLatinSettings12").html().match(/^about-hay 2 hours-hay/), "Settings correctly applied");
+        ok($("#testRussianSettings12").html().match(/^2 часа/), "Settings correctly applied");
+        // TODO: Test "час" and "часов"
       });
 
-      test('day', function () {
-        ok($('#testLatinSettings15').html().match(/^a-hay ay-day/), 'Settings correctly applied');
-        ok($('#testRussianSettings15').html().match(/^день/), 'Settings correctly applied');
+      test("day", function () {
+        ok($("#testLatinSettings15").html().match(/^a-hay ay-day/), "Settings correctly applied");
+        ok($("#testRussianSettings15").html().match(/^день/), "Settings correctly applied");
       });
 
-      test('days', function () {
-        ok($('#testLatinSettings16').html().match(/^2 ays-day/), 'Settings correctly applied');
-        ok($('#testRussianSettings16').html().match(/^2 дня/), 'Settings correctly applied');
-        ok($('#testRussianSettings17').html().match(/^29 дней/), 'Settings correctly applied');
-        // TODO: Test 'день'
+      test("days", function () {
+        ok($("#testLatinSettings16").html().match(/^2 ays-day/), "Settings correctly applied");
+        ok($("#testRussianSettings16").html().match(/^2 дня/), "Settings correctly applied");
+        ok($("#testRussianSettings17").html().match(/^29 дней/), "Settings correctly applied");
+        // TODO: Test "день"
       });
 
-      test('month', function () {
-        ok($('#testLatinSettings18').html().match(/^about-hay a-hay onth-may/), 'Settings correctly applied');
-        ok($('#testRussianSettings18').html().match(/^месяц/), 'Settings correctly applied');
+      test("month", function () {
+        ok($("#testLatinSettings18").html().match(/^about-hay a-hay onth-may/), "Settings correctly applied");
+        ok($("#testRussianSettings18").html().match(/^месяц/), "Settings correctly applied");
       });
 
-      test('months', function () {
-        ok($('#testLatinSettings19').html().match(/^6 onths-may/), 'Settings correctly applied');
-        ok($('#testRussianSettings19').html().match(/^6 месяцев/), 'Settings correctly applied');
-        // TODO: Test 'месяца' and 'месяц'
+      test("months", function () {
+        ok($("#testLatinSettings19").html().match(/^6 onths-may/), "Settings correctly applied");
+        ok($("#testRussianSettings19").html().match(/^6 месяцев/), "Settings correctly applied");
+        // TODO: Test "месяца" and "месяц"
       });
 
-      test('year', function () {
-        ok($('#testLatinSettings20').html().match(/^about-hay a-hay ear-yay/), 'Settings correctly applied');
-        ok($('#testRussianSettings20').html().match(/^год/), 'Settings correctly applied');
+      test("year", function () {
+        ok($("#testLatinSettings20").html().match(/^about-hay a-hay ear-yay/), "Settings correctly applied");
+        ok($("#testRussianSettings20").html().match(/^год/), "Settings correctly applied");
       });
 
-      test('years', function () {
-        ok($('#testYoungOldSettings1').html().match(/^16 young years/), 'Settings correctly applied');
-        ok($('#testYoungOldSettings2').html().match(/^64 old years/), 'Settings correctly applied');
-        ok($('#testLatinSettings21').html().match(/^3 years-yay/), 'Settings correctly applied');
-        ok($('#testRussianSettings21').html().match(/^3 года/), 'Settings correctly applied');
-        // TODO: Test 'год' and 'лет'
+      test("years", function () {
+        ok($("#testYoungOldSettings1").html().match(/^16 young years/), "Settings correctly applied");
+        ok($("#testYoungOldSettings2").html().match(/^64 old years/), "Settings correctly applied");
+        ok($("#testLatinSettings21").html().match(/^3 years-yay/), "Settings correctly applied");
+        ok($("#testRussianSettings21").html().match(/^3 года/), "Settings correctly applied");
+        // TODO: Test "год" and "лет"
       });
     })(jQuery);
     //]]>
diff --git a/test/test_helpers.js b/test/test_helpers.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ffc8d295
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/test_helpers.js
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+var zeropad = function (num) {
+  return ((num < 10) ? '0' : '') + num;
+};
+var iso8601 = function (date) {
+  return date.getUTCFullYear()
+    + "-" + zeropad(date.getUTCMonth()+1)
+    + "-" + zeropad(date.getUTCDate())
+    + "T" + zeropad(date.getUTCHours())
+    + ":" + zeropad(date.getUTCMinutes())
+    + ":" + zeropad(date.getUTCSeconds()) + "Z";
+};
+
+function prepareDynamicDates() {
+  $('abbr.loaded').attr("title", iso8601(new Date()));
+  $('abbr.modified').attr("title", iso8601(new Date(document.lastModified)));
+}
+
+function loadPigLatin() {
+  jQuery.timeago.settings.strings = {
+    suffixAgo: "ago-hay",
+    suffixFromNow: "omNow-fray",
+    seconds: "ess-lay an-thay a-hay inute-may",
+    minute: "about-hay a-hay inute-may",
+    minutes: "%d inutes-may",
+    hour: "about-hay an-hay hour-hay",
+    hours: "about-hay %d hours-hay",
+    day: "a-hay ay-day",
+    days: "%d ays-day",
+    month: "about-hay a-hay onth-may",
+    months: "%d onths-may",
+    year: "about-hay a-hay ear-yay",
+    years: "%d years-yay"
+  };
+}
+
+function loadRussian() {
+  (function() {
+    function numpf(n, f, s, t) {
+      // f - 1, 21, 31, ...
+      // s - 2-4, 22-24, 32-34 ...
+      // t - 5-20, 25-30, ...
+      var n10 = n % 10;
+      if ( (n10 == 1) && ( (n == 1) || (n > 20) ) ) {
+        return f;
+      } else if ( (n10 > 1) && (n10 < 5) && ( (n > 20) || (n < 10) ) ) {
+        return s;
+      } else {
+        return t;
+      }
+    }
+
+    jQuery.timeago.settings.strings = {
+      prefixAgo: null,
+      prefixFromNow: "через",
+      suffixAgo: "назад",
+      suffixFromNow: null,
+      seconds: "меньше минуты",
+      minute: "минуту",
+      minutes: function(value) { return numpf(value, "%d минута", "%d минуты", "%d минут"); },
+      hour: "час",
+      hours: function(value) { return numpf(value, "%d час", "%d часа", "%d часов"); },
+      day: "день",
+      days: function(value) { return numpf(value, "%d день", "%d дня", "%d дней"); },
+      month: "месяц",
+      months: function(value) { return numpf(value, "%d месяц", "%d месяца", "%d месяцев"); },
+      year: "год",
+      years: function(value) { return numpf(value, "%d год", "%d года", "%d лет"); }
+    };
+  })();
+}
+
+function loadYoungOldYears() {
+  jQuery.extend(jQuery.timeago.settings.strings, {
+    years: function(value) { return (value < 21) ? "%d young years" : "%d old years"; }
+  });
+}