Formats timeago dates to be more friendly

Formats the timeago timestamps to be a short date. This will only be visible on slower connections whilst the JS is loading, after the JS has loaded it will be turned into a timeago string Closes #27537

Formats timeago dates to be more friendly
8aa757aa · Phil Hughes · 22fd68ab · 8aa757aa · 8aa757aa
Commit 8aa757aa authored Feb 10, 2017 by Phil Hughes
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application_helper.rb app/helpers/application_helper.rb +1 -1

format-timeago-date.yml changelogs/unreleased/format-timeago-date.yml +4 -0

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--- a/app/helpers/application_helper.rb
+++ b/app/helpers/application_helper.rb
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ module ApplicationHelper
    css_classes = short_format ? 'js-short-timeago' : 'js-timeago'
    css_classes << " #{html_class}" unless html_class.blank?

-    element = content_tag :time, time.to_s,
+    element = content_tag :time, time.strftime("%b %d, %Y"),
      class: css_classes,
      title: time.to_time.in_time_zone.to_s(:medium),
      datetime: time.to_time.getutc.iso8601,

--- a/changelogs/unreleased/format-timeago-date.yml
+++ b/changelogs/unreleased/format-timeago-date.yml
+---
+title: Format timeago date to short format
+merge_request:
+author: