function elgg_view_friendly_time($time) {
    return elgg_view('output/friendlytime', array('time' => $time));
}

So, by modifying 'view/default/output/friendlytime.php'

Hey there, thatnks for the response. Do I replace everything with that line? I'm on Elgg 1.8.1, thanks

@Chris - look at the friendlytime.php file, you'll see how the output is calculated.  You'll want to overwrite the view in a plugin with your new calculations, so copy the core file to  <yourpluginname>/views/default/output/friendlytime.php and adjust the output to your needs.

Thanks for the info Matt, I'm a little skittish about trying to code my own plugin as I'm not familiar with php. Maybe I'll wait for someone who knows what they're doing to make a plugin.

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Create a folder "myplugin" in mod/

Copy and edit a manifest files from any other plugin.

Create a folder called 'views', in there create a folder 'default', in there create a folder 'output', in there create a file 'friendlytime.php'.

Copy the following into friendlytime.php:

$friendly_time = date("M j, Y", ($vars['time']);

$timestamp = htmlspecialchars(date(elgg_echo('friendlytime:date_format'), $vars['time']));

echo "<acronym title=\"$timestamp\">$friendly_time</acronym>";

Activate your plugin. That should be it.

I would really suggest you take a look at Elgg documentation and start learning php. Before one 1 year ago, I haven't done any programming whatsoever.

Hey Ismayil,

I did everything you said and it's asking for a "start.php", so I created one and added the following code to it.

<?php
elgg_register_action("friendlytime/views/default/output/", dirname(__FILE__) . "/friendlytime/views/default/output/friendlytime.php");
?>

I did read some docs and this is what I came up with, when I activate the plugin I get a white page. I'm thinking the start.php is wrong.

no no. you don't need to register any actions in start.php

Just do this:

elgg_register_event_handler('init', 'system', 'myplugin_init');

function myplugin_init() {

}

You don't need anything else in there. In the future, if you would like to register actions or extend views, you can do it in your myplugin_init function. Otherwise, leave it blank for now.

I posted that code in start.php and got this error

Fatal Error.

Redirect could not be issued due to headers already being sent. Halting execution for security. Search http://docs.elgg.org/ for more information.

Make sure start.php starts with <?php (no spaces before)

Do not close start.php with ?>