Format the "Submitted by..." text for Drupal 6 nodes and comments

I don't like the way Drupal formats the "Submitted by..." text for nodes and comments. So, I did a little bit of digging and found the offending code in the theme_node_submitted() and theme_comment_submitted() functions of node.module and comment.module respectively. These two functions are easy to override at the theme level by making a copy in your template.php file, and renaming the function to fit with your theme (replace theme with the name of your theme). I made mine look like this:

function kirkdesigns_node_submitted($node) {
  return t('Posted by !username on @date', array(
    '!username' => theme('username', $node),
    '@date' => format_date($node->created, 'custom', 'd M Y')
  ));
}

That took care of the "submitted by..." for all of my nodes. And the following snippet took care of the comments:

function kirkdesigns_comment_submitted($comment) {
  return t('Posted by !username on @date at about @time.', array(
    '!username' => theme('username', $comment),
    '@date' => format_date($comment->timestamp, 'custom', 'd M Y'),
    '@time' => format_date($comment->timestamp, 'custom', 'H:i')
  ));
}

It's only a small change, but it's the little things that make the difference.