# HG changeset patch
# User Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@bec.de>
# Date 2023-05-31 20:36:50
# Node ID 164b6c4878b829e5061ef68dae93a93a4ca32b15
# Parent  7b723217d368b93fbf0c9d81b95068a4266d61c4

doc: format argument for date uses strftime format string (issue6818)

diff --git a/mercurial/templatefuncs.py b/mercurial/templatefuncs.py
--- a/mercurial/templatefuncs.py
+++ b/mercurial/templatefuncs.py
@@ -50,8 +50,8 @@ templatefunc = registrar.templatefunc(fu
 
 @templatefunc(b'date(date[, fmt])')
 def date(context, mapping, args):
-    """Format a date. See :hg:`help dates` for formatting
-    strings. The default is a Unix date format, including the timezone:
+    """Format a date. The format string uses the Python strftime format.
+    The default is a Unix date format, including the timezone:
     "Mon Sep 04 15:13:13 2006 0700"."""
     if not (1 <= len(args) <= 2):
         # i18n: "date" is a keyword