diff --git a/src/templates/src/user_profile.html b/src/templates/src/user_profile.html
index 6facd141..e79e140e 100644
--- a/src/templates/src/user_profile.html
+++ b/src/templates/src/user_profile.html
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@
 
 				<div class="pair flex">
 					<div class="key flex-auto flex-shrink-0 mr2">Member since</div>
-					<div class="value projectlink truncate">{{ absoluteshortdate .ProfileUser.DateJoined }}</div>
+					<div class="value projectlink truncate">{{ absoluteshortdateabbrv .ProfileUser.DateJoined }}</div>
 				</div>
 			</div>
 		</div>
diff --git a/src/templates/templates.go b/src/templates/templates.go
index e5c7afb6..0e26b8f6 100644
--- a/src/templates/templates.go
+++ b/src/templates/templates.go
@@ -190,6 +190,9 @@ var HMNTemplateFuncs = template.FuncMap{
 	"absoluteshortdate": func(t time.Time) string {
 		return t.UTC().Format("January 2, 2006")
 	},
+	"absoluteshortdateabbrv": func(t time.Time) string {
+		return t.UTC().Format("Jan 2, 2006")
+	},
 	"rfc3339": func(t time.Time) string {
 		return t.UTC().Format(time.RFC3339)
 	},