Commit c90156fc authored by Tim Graham's avatar Tim Graham
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[1.5.X] Fixed #19348 - Clarified the units of filesizeformat. 

Thanks george_edison for the report and Claude Paroz for the patch.

Backport of 63e6cd1b from master
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docs/ref/templates/builtins.txt

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If ``value`` is 123456789, the output would be ``117.7 MB``.



.. admonition:: File sizes and SI units



    Strictly speaking, ``filesizeformat`` does not conform to the International

    System of Units which recommends using KiB, MiB, GiB, etc. when byte sizes

    are calculated in powers of 1024 (which is the case here). Instead, Django

    uses traditional unit names (KB, MB, GB, etc.) corresponding to names that

    are more commonly used.



.. templatefilter:: first



first