diff --git a/spec/features/commits_spec.rb b/spec/features/commits_spec.rb
index 8f561c8f90b..dede562c2b0 100644
--- a/spec/features/commits_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/features/commits_spec.rb
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ describe 'Commits' do
       commits = project.repository.commits(branch_name)
 
       commits.each do |commit|
-        expect(page).to have_content("committed #{commit.committed_date}")
+        expect(page).to have_content("committed #{commit.committed_date.strftime("%b %d, %Y")}")
       end
     end
   end
diff --git a/spec/helpers/application_helper_spec.rb b/spec/helpers/application_helper_spec.rb
index 8b201f348f1..9749936a2a0 100644
--- a/spec/helpers/application_helper_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/helpers/application_helper_spec.rb
@@ -193,8 +193,8 @@ describe ApplicationHelper do
   describe 'time_ago_with_tooltip' do
     def element(*arguments)
       Time.zone = 'UTC'
-      time = Time.zone.parse('2015-07-02 08:23')
-      element = helper.time_ago_with_tooltip(time, *arguments)
+      @time = Time.zone.parse('2015-07-02 08:23')
+      element = helper.time_ago_with_tooltip(@time, *arguments)
 
       Nokogiri::HTML::DocumentFragment.parse(element).first_element_child
     end
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ describe ApplicationHelper do
     end
 
     it 'includes the date string' do
-      expect(element.text).to eq '2015-07-02 08:23:00 UTC'
+      expect(element.text).to eq @time.strftime("%b %d, %Y")
     end
 
     it 'has a datetime attribute' do