#17916: humanize naturaltime for large delta
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Reporter: anonymous | Owner: nobody
Type: New feature | Status: new
Component: contrib.humanize | Version: SVN
Severity: Normal | Keywords:
Triage Stage: Unreviewed | Has patch: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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The documentation (for the Django 1.4 development version) states that the
naturaltime filter will default to a longer date format if the time delta
is greater than 1 day. The code for the naturaltime filter (just checked
out from SVN) is as follows:
{{{
...
now = datetime.now(utc if is_aware(value) else None)
if value < now:
delta = now - value
if delta.days != 0:
return pgettext(
'naturaltime', '%(delta)s ago'
) % {'delta': defaultfilters.timesince(value)}
elif delta.seconds == 0:
return _(u'now')
elif delta.seconds < 60:
return ungettext(
u'a second ago', u'%(count)s seconds ago', delta.seconds
) % {'count': delta.seconds}
...
}}}
As can be seen above, if the delta is 1 day or more the value is obtained
from timesince which will return a human readable string such as 1 year, 3
months ago (with two time units). If the delta is large, I think it would
be better to provide a means to specify the desired date format. I would
rather a long date format like 10/3/2012 if the delta is large (rather
than 1 month, 2 days ago for example).
Btw I've reported this as a feature but even if this is not implemented I
think that the documentation should be updated as it isn't really clear on
the format of the fallback date. It simply says "longer date format"
which is not clear. I was expecting something like dd/mm/yyyy or
something similar.
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Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/17916>
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