diff --git a/public/src/modules/notifications.js b/public/src/modules/notifications.js
index 46e6833806..319d88041f 100644
--- a/public/src/modules/notifications.js
+++ b/public/src/modules/notifications.js
@@ -25,11 +25,14 @@ define('notifications', ['sounds'], function(sound) {
 							image = '';
 						}
 
-						return '<li class="' + (notification.readClass || '') + '"><a href="' + (notification.path || '#') + '">' + image + '<span class="pull-right relTime">' + utils.relativeTime(notification.datetime, true) + '</span><span class="text">' + notification.bodyShort + '</span></a></li>';
+						return '<li class="' + (notification.readClass || '') + '"><a href="' + (notification.path || '#') + '">' + image + '<span class="pull-right relTime">' + $.timeago(new Date(parseInt(notification.datetime, 10))) + '</span><span class="text">' + notification.bodyShort + '</span></a></li>';
 					}
 
 					var	x, html = '';
 
+					// Switch to shorthand
+					translator.toggleTimeagoShorthand();
+
 					if (!err && (data.read.length + data.unread.length) > 0) {
 						var	image = '';
 						for (x = 0; x < data.unread.length; x++) {
@@ -43,6 +46,9 @@ define('notifications', ['sounds'], function(sound) {
 						html += '<li class="no-notifs"><a>[[notifications:no_notifs]]</a></li>';
 					}
 
+					// Switch back to original timeago strings
+					translator.toggleTimeagoShorthand();
+
 					html += '<li class="pagelink"><a href="' + config.relative_path + '/notifications">[[notifications:see_all]]</a></li>';
 
 					notifList.translateHtml(html);
diff --git a/public/src/translator.js b/public/src/translator.js
index 07794f360c..5b052af216 100644
--- a/public/src/translator.js
+++ b/public/src/translator.js
@@ -85,6 +85,34 @@
 		}
 	};
 
+	translator.toggleTimeagoShorthand = function() {
+		if (!translator.timeagoStrings) {
+			translator.timeagoStrings = $.extend({}, jQuery.timeago.settings.strings);
+			jQuery.timeago.settings.strings = {
+				prefixAgo: null,
+				prefixFromNow: null,
+				suffixAgo: "",
+				suffixFromNow: "",
+				seconds: "1m",
+				minute: "1m",
+				minutes: "%dm",
+				hour: "1h",
+				hours: "%dh",
+				day: "1d",
+				days: "%dd",
+				month: "1mo",
+				months: "%dmo",
+				year: "1yr",
+				years: "%dyr",
+				wordSeparator: " ",
+				numbers: []
+			};
+		} else {
+			jQuery.timeago.settings.strings = $.extend({}, translator.timeagoStrings);
+			delete translator.timeagoStrings;
+		}
+	};
+
 	translator.translate = function (text, language, callback) {
 		if (typeof language === 'function') {
 			callback = language;
diff --git a/public/src/utils.js b/public/src/utils.js
index bdb8bf1a81..b9658593cc 100644
--- a/public/src/utils.js
+++ b/public/src/utils.js
@@ -63,44 +63,6 @@
 			});
 		},
 
-		relativeTime: function(timestamp, min) {
-			var now = +new Date(),
-				difference = now - Math.floor(parseFloat(timestamp));
-
-			if(difference < 0) {
-				difference = 0;
-			}
-
-			difference = Math.floor(difference / 1000);
-
-			if (difference < 60) {
-				return difference + (min ? 's' : ' second') + (difference !== 1 && !min ? 's' : '');
-			}
-
-			difference = Math.floor(difference / 60);
-			if (difference < 60) {
-				return difference + (min ? 'm' : ' minute') + (difference !== 1 && !min ? 's' : '');
-			}
-
-			difference = Math.floor(difference / 60);
-			if (difference < 24) {
-				return difference + (min ? 'h' : ' hour') + (difference !== 1 && !min ? 's' : '');
-			}
-
-			difference = Math.floor(difference / 24);
-			if (difference < 30) {
-				return difference + (min ? 'd' : ' day') + (difference !== 1 && !min ? 's' : '');
-			}
-
-			difference = Math.floor(difference / 30);
-			if (difference < 12) {
-				return difference + (min ? 'mon' : ' month') + (difference !== 1 && !min ? 's' : '');
-			}
-
-			difference = Math.floor(difference / 12);
-			return difference + (min ? 'y' : ' year') + (difference !== 1 && !min ? 's' : '');
-		},
-
 		invalidUnicodeChars: XRegExp('[^\\p{L}\\s\\d\\-_]', 'g'),
 		invalidLatinChars: /[^\w\s\d\-_]/g,
 		trimRegex: /^\s+|\s+$/g,