Outdated documentation - (date format strings)

[cezz]

Page ​http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/templates/builtins/#now says that format string "U" is Not implemented, but it actually works for me using django 1.0.2 (it returns Unix timestamp)

[Tim Graham]

initial fix

[Karen Tracey]

Before checking in a doc change that claims something works, we should first verify it works. Adding a testcase that attempts to use this formatting option would seem to be wise. Actually, based on #10318 and the associated django-users thread: ​http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/browse_thread/thread/5a156fbddee22d3b/e255ffea08bd3d4d, it appears the doc is more right than wrong here -- I can't see how the existing code is correct.

I don't know whether the right answer is to to fix the code to match the doc (raise NotImplemented there, as it used to before r992) or fix the implementation.

Note #10318 has a test, but that test fails on Windows due to strftime('%s') there returning an empty string rather then a number, so that test can't be directly used in our test suite.

[Eric Holscher]

Seems like this should be in 1.1 like #10825. Feel free to revert if not.

[Malcolm Tredinnick]

This isn't 1.1 material. Karen's comment indicates why: it's not a public feature at the moment and needs a bunch of work to fix things.

[George Song]

Patch over at #10825 that incorporates changes for this ticket as well, since they go hand-in-hand.

[Tim Graham]

fixed: (In [10716]) Fixed #10825: fixed the 'U' format code to dateformat (and the date/now filter/tag).