Adaptive Software Solutions

I have been messing around with how to display date formats (in questions and answers) for my web based learning site from the past couple days. After trying various things, I settled for what seems to be a web 2.0 standard for displaying dates - displaying dates as '2 days 4 hours ago' instead of the actual date and time '4th August, 2009 5:50 PM' . I like this because I do not have to deal with any browser localization issues. Everything is a delta between the UTC time a question was asked and the current UTC time (btw if you are working with datetime in Python, do read this blog post ). In my Django based application, I use JQuery to get questions and answers for forums on every topic page. The application sends back JSON to the Javascript functions which display the questions and answers from the JSON objects. The DjangoJSONEncoder (scroll to the end of this module) provided by Django serializes dates in a specific format. I wanted to change this so that a d...