diff -r 6cb8b46ea90a -r fe9d36a6853e mercurial/templates/spartan/changeset.tmpl
--- a/mercurial/templates/spartan/changeset.tmpl	Thu Oct 27 18:15:34 2011 -0500
+++ b/mercurial/templates/spartan/changeset.tmpl	Thu Oct 27 11:57:08 2011 -0700
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <th class="date">date:</th>
- <td class="date age">{date|date}</td>
+ <td class="date age">{date|rfc822date}</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <th class="files">files:</th>