diff --git a/tracks/app/helpers/application_helper.rb b/tracks/app/helpers/application_helper.rb
index 928bba29..2f27d0ff 100644
--- a/tracks/app/helpers/application_helper.rb
+++ b/tracks/app/helpers/application_helper.rb
@@ -43,16 +43,21 @@ module ApplicationHelper
 
     @now = Date.today
     @days = due-@now
+       
     case @days
       # overdue or due very soon! sound the alarm!
-      when -365..1
-        "<span class=\"red\">" + format_date(due) + "</span> "
+      when -365..-1
+        "<a title='" + format_date(due) + "'><span class=\"red\">Overdue by " + (@days * -1).to_s + " days</span></a> "
+      when 0
+           "<a title='" + format_date(due) + "'><span class=\"amber\">Due Today</span></a> "
+      when 1
+           "<a title='" + format_date(due) + "'><span class=\"amber\">Due Tommorrow</span></a> "
       # due 2-7 days away
       when 2..7
-        "<span class=\"amber\">" + format_date(due) + "</span> "
+           "<a title='" + format_date(due) + "'><span class=\"orange\">Due in " + @days.to_s + " days</span></a> "
       # more than a week away - relax
       else
-        "<span class=\"green\">" + format_date(due) + "</span> "
+        "<a title='" + format_date(due) + "'><span class=\"green\">Due in " + @days.to_s + " days</span></a> "
     end
   end
 
diff --git a/tracks/doc/CHANGELOG b/tracks/doc/CHANGELOG
index 51fe1f4e..3e6e5083 100644
--- a/tracks/doc/CHANGELOG
+++ b/tracks/doc/CHANGELOG
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ Wiki (deprecated - please use Trac): http://www.rousette.org.uk/projects/wiki/
 12. Changed the shebang lines to <tt>#!/usr/bin/env ruby</tt>. This should work for all *nix based setups (Linux or Mac OS X), but Windows users will probably have to change it. Try this command at the command line, run inside the Tracks directory:
   ruby -i.bak -pe 'gsub!("#!/usr/bin/env ruby", "#!c:/ruby/bin/ruby")' public/dispatch.* script/*
 13. The TXT view is now sorted by position, just as the home page is.
+14. <b>Contributed by lolindrath</b>: Items that are overdue are coloured red, and have the text 'Overdue by X days' in the badge. Other due dates are given as days from now (up to a week away in orange, more than a week away in green), and the tool tip shows the actual date.
 
 == Version 1.03
 
diff --git a/tracks/public/stylesheets/standard.css b/tracks/public/stylesheets/standard.css
index c343799b..677dfaa8 100644
--- a/tracks/public/stylesheets/standard.css
+++ b/tracks/public/stylesheets/standard.css
@@ -291,6 +291,13 @@ a.footer_link:hover {color: #fff; background-color: #cc3334 !important;}
       padding: 1px;
       font-size: 10px;
       }
+         
+.orange {
+      color: #fff;
+      background: #FFA500;
+      padding: 1px;
+      font-size: 10px;
+      }
 
 .green {
       color: #fff;