diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/application.js b/app/assets/javascripts/application.js
index fbd8486..0612c62 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/application.js
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/application.js
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@
 //= require twitter/bootstrap
 //= require vendor/underscore-min
 //= require vendor/backbone-min
-//= require vendor/jquery.timeago
 //= require handlebars.runtime
 //= require backbone/ascii_io
 //= require player/player
diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/backbone/views/comments/comment_entry.js.coffee b/app/assets/javascripts/backbone/views/comments/comment_entry.js.coffee
index 1ffacfa..924d0e1 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/backbone/views/comments/comment_entry.js.coffee
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/backbone/views/comments/comment_entry.js.coffee
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ class AsciiIo.Views.CommentEntry extends AsciiIo.Views.Base
   render: ->
     extra =
       show_remove_link: @showRemoveLink()
-      created: @timeAgo()
       profile_path: "/~#{@model.get('user').nickname}"
 
     context = _.extend(@model.toJSON(), extra)
@@ -21,9 +20,6 @@ class AsciiIo.Views.CommentEntry extends AsciiIo.Views.Base
   showRemoveLink: ->
     @current_user() && ( @current_user().id == @model.user().id )
 
-  timeAgo: ->
-    $.timeago( @model.get('created') )
-
   removeComment: (event) ->
     event.preventDefault()
     @model.destroy
diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/vendor/jquery.timeago.js b/app/assets/javascripts/vendor/jquery.timeago.js
deleted file mode 100644
index bb20c42..0000000
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/vendor/jquery.timeago.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,147 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Timeago is a jQuery plugin that makes it easy to support automatically
- * updating fuzzy timestamps (e.g. "4 minutes ago" or "about 1 day ago").
- *
- * @name timeago
- * @version 0.10.1
- * @requires jQuery v1.2.3+
- * @author Ryan McGeary
- * @license MIT License - http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
- *
- * For usage and examples, visit:
- * http://timeago.yarp.com/
- *
- * Copyright (c) 2008-2011, Ryan McGeary (ryanonjavascript -[at]- mcgeary [*dot*] org)
- */
-(function($) {
-  $.timeago = function(timestamp) {
-    if (timestamp instanceof Date) {
-      return inWords(timestamp);
-    } else if (typeof timestamp === "string") {
-      return inWords($.timeago.parse(timestamp));
-    } else {
-      return inWords($.timeago.datetime(timestamp));
-    }
-  };
-  var $t = $.timeago;
-
-  $.extend($.timeago, {
-    settings: {
-      refreshMillis: 60000,
-      allowFuture: false,
-      strings: {
-        prefixAgo: null,
-        prefixFromNow: null,
-        suffixAgo: "ago",
-        suffixFromNow: "from now",
-        seconds: "less than a minute",
-        minute: "about a minute",
-        minutes: "%d minutes",
-        hour: "about an hour",
-        hours: "about %d hours",
-        day: "a day",
-        days: "%d days",
-        month: "about a month",
-        months: "%d months",
-        year: "about a year",
-        years: "%d years",
-        wordSeparator: " ",
-        numbers: []
-      }
-    },
-    inWords: function(distanceMillis) {
-      var $l = this.settings.strings;
-      var prefix = $l.prefixAgo;
-      var suffix = $l.suffixAgo;
-      if (this.settings.allowFuture) {
-        if (distanceMillis < 0) {
-          prefix = $l.prefixFromNow;
-          suffix = $l.suffixFromNow;
-        }
-      }
-
-      var seconds = Math.abs(distanceMillis) / 1000;
-      var minutes = seconds / 60;
-      var hours = minutes / 60;
-      var days = hours / 24;
-      var years = days / 365;
-
-      function substitute(stringOrFunction, number) {
-        var string = $.isFunction(stringOrFunction) ? stringOrFunction(number, distanceMillis) : stringOrFunction;
-        var value = ($l.numbers && $l.numbers[number]) || number;
-        return string.replace(/%d/i, value);
-      }
-
-      var words = seconds < 45 && substitute($l.seconds, Math.round(seconds)) ||
-        seconds < 90 && substitute($l.minute, 1) ||
-        minutes < 45 && substitute($l.minutes, Math.round(minutes)) ||
-        minutes < 90 && substitute($l.hour, 1) ||
-        hours < 24 && substitute($l.hours, Math.round(hours)) ||
-        hours < 48 && substitute($l.day, 1) ||
-        days < 30 && substitute($l.days, Math.floor(days)) ||
-        days < 60 && substitute($l.month, 1) ||
-        days < 365 && substitute($l.months, Math.floor(days / 30)) ||
-        years < 2 && substitute($l.year, 1) ||
-        substitute($l.years, Math.floor(years));
-
-      return $.trim([prefix, words, suffix].join($l.wordSeparator));
-    },
-    parse: function(iso8601) {
-      var s = $.trim(iso8601);
-      s = s.replace(/\.\d\d\d+/,""); // remove milliseconds
-      s = s.replace(/-/,"/").replace(/-/,"/");
-      s = s.replace(/T/," ").replace(/Z/," UTC");
-      s = s.replace(/([\+\-]\d\d)\:?(\d\d)/," $1$2"); // -04:00 -> -0400
-      return new Date(s);
-    },
-    datetime: function(elem) {
-      // jQuery's `is()` doesn't play well with HTML5 in IE
-      var isTime = $(elem).get(0).tagName.toLowerCase() === "time"; // $(elem).is("time");
-      var iso8601 = isTime ? $(elem).attr("datetime") : $(elem).attr("title");
-      return $t.parse(iso8601);
-    }
-  });
-
-  $.fn.timeago = function() {
-    var self = this;
-    self.each(refresh);
-
-    var $s = $t.settings;
-    if ($s.refreshMillis > 0) {
-      setInterval(function() { self.each(refresh); }, $s.refreshMillis);
-    }
-    return self;
-  };
-
-  function refresh() {
-    var data = prepareData(this);
-    if (!isNaN(data.datetime)) {
-      $(this).text(inWords(data.datetime));
-    }
-    return this;
-  }
-
-  function prepareData(element) {
-    element = $(element);
-    if (!element.data("timeago")) {
-      element.data("timeago", { datetime: $t.datetime(element) });
-      var text = $.trim(element.text());
-      if (text.length > 0) {
-        element.attr("title", text);
-      }
-    }
-    return element.data("timeago");
-  }
-
-  function inWords(date) {
-    return $t.inWords(distance(date));
-  }
-
-  function distance(date) {
-    return (new Date().getTime() - date.getTime());
-  }
-
-  // fix for IE6 suckage
-  document.createElement("abbr");
-  document.createElement("time");
-}(jQuery));
diff --git a/app/decorators/comment_decorator.rb b/app/decorators/comment_decorator.rb
index 33e50d5..4118aea 100644
--- a/app/decorators/comment_decorator.rb
+++ b/app/decorators/comment_decorator.rb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ class CommentDecorator < ApplicationDecorator
   decorates :comment
 
   def created
-    created_at && created_at.strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S")
+    h.time_ago_in_words(created_at) + " ago"
   end
 
   def as_json(opts = nil)