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I don‘t know how many times I used the wrong M in various date formatters.

Format specifiers shouldn’t be case sensitive. Better mnemonics would be even better.



It really is its own little DSL, and often subtly different yet similar enough across various languages. Compare also with printf and regular expressions.




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