Handbook is not up to date on format_date

Even though most languages refer to dates as "short", "medium" and "long" the documentation matches the code (see common.inc file in latest drupal 6 build). So there's really nothing wrong with the docs.

Just want to note that Drupal 7 has the same references in its API docs so if you'd like to make a patch or create an issue to add support for "short", "medium" and "long" date format names in Drupal 7, feel free to do so.

See #368408: Consistent date length nomenclature in format_date(): naming for these in 7.x core code has been made consistent: short, medium, and long.

The handbook should now reflect that for 7.x, so I'm re-opening this issue.

@minorOffense, feel free to reassign this to yourself if appropriate.

OK, I'm not super familiar with the handbook, so I don't know if I'm looking in the right direction, but I've done some searching around d.o. to find docs and issues related to this, (mostly searching for format_date and small / large,) and found the following links to have info that is made out-of-date by this change.

in the Handbook:

• Formatting numbers, dates/times, sizes and intervals with localization
• User "history" or "member for: (time)" snippet
• search results as teasers (make data not show up)
• Theming tips and tricks
• Customize the search results page

in the Forums:

• Converting the date format

Many of these relate to Drupal 4.x or 5.x, and/or might not be appropriate to correct, but I'm trying to kick this off a bit, and hope someone more familiar with docs can help out here.

This issue relates to documentation in the Handbook. Moving to correct issue queue.

(Thanks Jennifer.)

I see now that this -- well, the change in #368408: Consistent date length nomenclature in format_date() -- needs to be added to Converting 6.x modules to 7.x (and Converting 6.x modules to 7.x - Categorical)...

In that case, the other issue should have been marked as "needs work" with tag "Needs Documentation" instead of "fixed".

Thanks @jhodgdon; done so.

tagging

All of the above pages (except one that has been archived) have their status updated to say "needs updating", and a comment linking to this issue.

We aren't using Documentation issue reports to report problems with Community Documentation pages any more in general... so please feel free to edit the pages... for now, that will take care of it at least.