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| author | Russell Keith-Magee <russell@keith-magee.com> | 2010-04-28 11:27:38 +0000 |
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| committer | Russell Keith-Magee <russell@keith-magee.com> | 2010-04-28 11:27:38 +0000 |
| commit | 4e0aa65d16e86cb426c49e33511bf013a47c4fbb (patch) | |
| tree | d956c93e203c8f80c67700d5f656263528a60398 /docs/topics | |
| parent | cae4401a01cceb0f2a1fbf655f70c8dc8a4eba59 (diff) | |
Refs #13339 -- Disable %b/%B-based locale datetime input formats, and document that they are problematic.
git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@13039 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/topics')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/topics/i18n/localization.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/topics/i18n/localization.txt b/docs/topics/i18n/localization.txt index 8e1beaef46..91c771f610 100644 --- a/docs/topics/i18n/localization.txt +++ b/docs/topics/i18n/localization.txt @@ -265,8 +265,14 @@ current locale. Django will also use localized formats when parsing data in forms. That means Django uses different formats for different locales when guessing the format -used by the user when inputting data on forms. Note that Django uses different -formats for displaying data, and for parsing it. +used by the user when inputting data on forms. + +.. note:: + Django uses different formats for displaying data to those it uses for + parsing data. Most notably, the formats for parsing dates can't use the + ``%a`` (abbreviated weekday name), ``%A`` (full weekday name), + ``%b`` (abbreviated month name), ``%B`` (full month name), + or ``%p`` (AM/PM). To enable a form field to localize input and output data simply use its ``localize`` argument:: |