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

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,

changelogs/unreleased/format-timeago-date.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+---
+title: Format timeago date to short format
+merge_request:
+author: