where is the module outputing the things such as"ahout 6 hours ago"

[sunqi]

i guess there should be some tpl files to achieve this kind of function but i can't find
or in js code ?

[frissdiegurke]

As I can see within the lavender-themes js-file it's a plugin of jQuery: create a span with title like 2014-02-19T18:44:26.045Z (utils.toISOString(post.lastposttime)), select it with jQuery and call $('yourSpan').timeago()

Source: here

Within templates I guess you just need to give the span the correct title and class timeago like here

PS: not tested anything

[julian]

Yep. We use timeago, except for the notifications dropdown, which is still our own hand-rolled string, which really ought to be replaced at some point.

Just call $(parentElement).timeago() to initialise. The ISO string should be in the title, as @frissdiegurke says.

[psychobunny]

which is still our own hand-rolled string

I actually didn't realize this. I happened to hand-roll my own fn for pewter (see this)

maybe make it publically available so I can just call that instead. whichever of our two functions that's better

[julian]

@psychobunny Notifications are still using the old utils.js relativeTime method