It looks like your setup is using utc. (UTC is 4 hours ahead of EDT)
Wagn is just using the default ruby on rails behavior here; we basically named the fields "created_at" and "updated_at" in the db table and Rails does all the rest.
Since that's the case, something like the solution described here should work for you:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6118779/how-to-change-default-timezone-for-activerecord-in-rails-3
(note to self) relevant code is here: https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/activerecord/lib/active_record/timestamp.rb
I ended up including _Self|change on the card as a way to display when it was updated, but that looks bizarre because it also displays the name of the card on the same line as the update time. Is there a better way?
oh, sorry, I missed the core question here.
There is an updated_at view and a created_at view.
hmm. those two are expressed in time "ago":
{{_|updated_at}} = about 10 years
{{_|created_at}} = about 10 years
We also have these (which may be renamed at some point):
{{_+*when created}} =
Thursday, October 09, 2014 06:06 PM UTC
{{_+*when last edited}} =
Thursday, October 09, 2014 07:29 PM UTC
the *when last edited is what I was looking for. Thanks!