diff --git a/app/views/projects/merge_requests/branch_from.js.haml b/app/views/projects/merge_requests/branch_from.js.haml
index 8372afa61b..9210798f39 100644
--- a/app/views/projects/merge_requests/branch_from.js.haml
+++ b/app/views/projects/merge_requests/branch_from.js.haml
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 :plain
   $(".mr_source_commit").html("#{commit_to_html(@commit, @source_project, false)}");
+  $('.js-timeago').timeago()
diff --git a/app/views/projects/merge_requests/branch_to.js.haml b/app/views/projects/merge_requests/branch_to.js.haml
index f7ede0ded5..32fe2d535f 100644
--- a/app/views/projects/merge_requests/branch_to.js.haml
+++ b/app/views/projects/merge_requests/branch_to.js.haml
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 :plain
   $(".mr_target_commit").html("#{commit_to_html(@commit, @target_project, false)}");
+  $('.js-timeago').timeago()