date and timestamp

[wolframw]

On Wednesday, 29 April 2020 at 22:22:04 UTC, guai wrote:
> 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?

There was a similar discussion some time ago where Walter also 
explained the origin of these formats: 
https://forum.dlang.org/post/p4c8ka$2np$1@digitalmars.com