Nice Date

This module provides a "Nice Date" element on nodes and comments. This was originally a custom theme extension for my blog. See:
http://www.thingy-ma-jig.co.uk/blog/10-05-2011/nice-dates-a-how-to

An element is added to $variables['nice_date'] on nodes and comment which you can then print out in your themes templates where needed.

The module uses a CSS Sprite with all the months, days and years on it to generate a small 41x40px block with the date in it.