Twig\Error\RuntimeError: The date format "html_date" does not exist

The interesting thing is, that there even is a Drupal date format "html_date" on that page, so this can't be what's ment by this error?

Seems like this module conflicts with the Drupal core "format_date" twig filter from

new TwigFilter('format_date', [$this->dateFormatter, 'format']),

Drupal\Core\Template\TwigExtension.

Houston we have a problem...

@Anybody

I hope the issue is not with the Drupal core format_date() twig extension. Till TWIG version 2.12 the format_date() is part of default. But on TWIG version >2.12 and 3.x version, format_date() extension is removed from the default and added into the IntlExtension. The IntlExtension needs to be installed separately to access the additional extensions.

https://twig.symfony.com/doc/2.x/filters/format_date.html
https://twig.symfony.com/doc/3.x/filters/format_date.html

If Twig IntlExtension needs to work fine with Drupal core means, we can extend the TwigExtension.php from the path Drupal\Core\Template\TwigExtension.php.

My reply about the patch on Drupal core available on this comment 🐛 Custom Core Twig Filter "format_date" conflicts with twig/intl-extra Active
https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/3419294#comment-15694037 🐛 Custom Core Twig Filter "format_date" conflicts with twig/intl-extra Active

If you are using a custom theme, you can fix it by copying the template file locale-translation-update-info.html.twig from core to the templates directory of your theme.

Within the <li> tag, you can change the param of format_date, for example to this: format_date('short'). This will circumvent the error.

I have attached a patch file to make the necessary fix a little bit clearer. If you are using a theme managed by composer, then the "cweagans/composer-patches" plugin can prevent losing the manual change. Add these lines to your composer.json file, within the "extra" section:

        "patches": {
            "drupal/core": [{
                "description": "https://www.drupal.org/project/twig_intl/issues/3419285",
                "url": "locale-translation-update-info.html.twig.patch"
            }]
        },

Then, you can run composer require cweagans/composer-patches:~2.0 && composer patches-relock && composer patches-repatch.

Just an update on this. Drupal commerce has templates which use date_format. I resolved by copying the templates to my theme and changing the filter to format_date.