naturaltime documentation is misleading

[Jaap Roes]

Currently ​documentation says the following:

"[...] falling back to a longer date format if the value is more than a day old."

In fact it won't ever do a date format, instead it will falls back to whatever timesince/timeuntil does (1 day ago, 1 year and 2 months ago etc.)

To me it seems more consistent that it would work like naturalday and fall back to 'DATETIME_FORMAT', with the option to pass in a custom format string.

The behavior I expected was (nearly) implemented as a result of ticket #12771, the current behavior was implemented because of ticket #15921.

[Preston Holmes]

Not entirely clear if this is a bug in the code or the docs - tests would imply that the code was not designed to revert to a long date format. The idea that this is a error in the docs is further confirmed by this comment: https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/15921#comment:3

[Jacob]

Milestone 1.4 deleted

[anonymous]

Seems to be a documentation issue then. Should be easy to fix right?

[Tim Graham <timograham@…>]

In [07e10fbe9f1a77fe03cfceeb008e1e56caba3a40]:

Fixed #16941 - Clarified naturaltime output when the time is more than a day old.

Thanks antoviaque for the patch.

[Tim Graham <timograham@…>]

In [d1ae3c899f9284beba43ae2c82c42a5feeabdda1]:

[1.4.X] Fixed #16941 - Clarified naturaltime output when the time is more than a day old.

Thanks antoviaque for the patch.
Backport of 07e10fbe9f from master