UI, bad «joined» format in Bio?

[xmgz]

Describe the bug

I think there's an issue with time period format in https://crowdin.com/editor/bookwyrm/1553/en-gl?view=comfortable#41851

Joined %(date)s

«Joined» is translated following UI language, but «%(date)s» portion follows remote user instance's default language so in some cases the format of the two strings do not match and more often than not two languages are mixed.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to any user profile page
2. Look at «joined» in Bio

Expected behavior

«%(date)s» language is the same as «joined» and both are set to the UI preference

Screenshots

here you can see several profiles where the problem is shown:

all these bios share "Desde" but the second part is in spanish, english, euskaro, galician

diferent languages for date format

Instance

any (seen in versions 0.7.4, 0.7.1 at least)

Additional context

translator here, so I can make a better job :)

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[mouse-reeve]

this is so strange! It looked at a glance like a caching issues, since template snippets can be cached and inserted in, and if they aren't cached with the language code included, you get weird little mixed language situations like this. But having look at the templates, it doesn't look like there's caching being used here. The text that populated date is user.created_date|naturaltime, which is calling the built-in nautraltime filter. I wonder if it's possible that Django is missing some support for Galician and it's using language fallbacks?

Unfortunately I haven't turned up any evidence that there's something wrong on our end, which would make this much easier to address

[xmgz]

thank you for your time reviewing this issue