--- a/src/js/widgets/tweetsWidget.js	Tue Nov 29 13:49:19 2011 +0100
+++ b/src/js/widgets/tweetsWidget.js	Tue Nov 29 14:34:30 2011 +0100
@@ -29,7 +29,8 @@
       imageMarkup = Mustache.to_html("<a href='http://twitter.com/{{creator}}'><img src='{{src}}' alt='user image'></img></a>", 
                                        {src : img, creator: creator});
             
-      title = Mustache.to_html(IriSP.rich_tweet_template, {contents : title, date : tweetContents.created_at});
+      var formatted_date = new Date(tweetContents.created_at).toLocaleDateString();
+      title = Mustache.to_html(IriSP.rich_tweet_template, {contents : title, date : formatted_date});
     }
 
     this.selector.find(".Ldt-tweetContents").html(title);
@@ -95,4 +96,4 @@
   
   this.displayTweet(annotation);
   return;
-};
\ No newline at end of file
+};