This snippet display a human readable date differential for feed update like twitter or facebook. You give it the your date in parameter a fuzzy diff with datetime.datetime.now() is returned.
Usage:
{{ status.created_at|fuzzy_date }}
Will give something like:
just now
13 minutes ago
1 hour ago
in 1 week
To test the filter:
python tests.py
I proposed the code to be included in Django: Django ticket 13541.
The use of javascript instead of python is an open discussion.