date and timestamp

[guai]

Hi, forum

I have two questions:

1) Why __DATE__ and __TIMESTAMP__ have these insane formats?
"mmm dd yyyy" and "www mmm dd hh:mm:ss yyyy"
I think its the first time in my life I encounter something like 
this. start with date, then print time, then the rest of the date 
- what?

2) Are those locale-specific?