Commit 43a2ec79 authored by Curtis Maloney's avatar Curtis Maloney Committed by Tim Graham
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Fixed #21133 --Clarifed documentation about strftime formatting.

parent a991b011

docs/ref/class-based-views/mixins-date-based.txt

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.. currentmodule:: django.views.generic.dates



.. note::

    All the date formatting attributes in these mixins use

    :func:`~time.strftime` format characters. Do not try to use the format

    characters from the :ttag:`now` template tag as they are not compatible.



YearMixin

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docs/ref/templates/builtins.txt

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Uses a similar format as PHP's ``date()`` function (http://php.net/date)

with some differences.



.. note::

    These format characters are not used in Django outside of templates. They

    were designed to be compatible with PHP to ease transitioning for designers.



Available format strings:



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