id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	stage	has_patch	needs_docs	needs_tests	needs_better_patch	easy	ui_ux
17916	humanize naturaltime for large delta	anonymous		"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."	New feature	closed	contrib.humanize	dev	Normal	fixed	sprints-django-ar		Accepted	0	0	0	0	0	0