DateTime custom string format

[Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Tuesday, 3 June 2014 at 18:22:59 UTC, Jonathan M Davis via 
Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> Well, I would prefer to do it myself, but I obviously can't say 
> that I
> wouldn't accept it if someone else did it and did a good job of 
> it. The main
> problem however is that we need to come up with a good 
> formatting scheme -
> that is the format of the custom time strings. What C has 
> doesn't cut it, and
> what I proposed a while back turned out to be too complicated.

Just for reference to Robert and others reading, here's 
Jonathan's old proposal:

http://forum.dlang.org/post/mailman.1806.1324525352.24802.digitalmars-d@puremagic.com