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All of the things you say can be had by doing things grandparent's way with minor tweaks.

• baddox 16y ago
  But then you're left with essentially the standard php date format, except instead of one-letter tokens, they're all longer.
  • jacabado 16y ago
    But concrete and equal in all languages, which is the point of the OP.
    • bluesmoon 16y ago
      the strftime format is an open standard that's already the same in all languages.