diff -r 6cb8b46ea90a -r fe9d36a6853e mercurial/templates/gitweb/fileannotate.tmpl
--- a/mercurial/templates/gitweb/fileannotate.tmpl	Thu Oct 27 18:15:34 2011 -0500
+++ b/mercurial/templates/gitweb/fileannotate.tmpl	Thu Oct 27 11:57:08 2011 -0700
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
  <td>{author|obfuscate}</td></tr>
 <tr>
  <td></td>
- <td class="date age">{date|date}</td></tr>
+ <td class="date age">{date|rfc822date}</td></tr>
 {branch%filerevbranch}
 <tr>
  <td>changeset {rev}</td>