The thing is, custom date formats are already possible, but right now they require editing layers (the code that generates journal layouts). We haven't changed this stuff since Dreamwidth forked. Should this be fully exposed as an option in the wizard, making it more user-friendly for people who don't want to code their own layers?
I'm kind of inclined against, really. I think custom date format is more relevant to layout designers than individual users. The wizard at the moment already gives 12 different options. OK, none of them matches exactly what you want, and maybe we could tweak them to be more in line with standards. But exposing fully customizable date and time format seems overkill. There's some advantage in being able to expect some degree of consistency across the site in dates being recognizable as dates.
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I'm kind of inclined against, really. I think custom date format is more relevant to layout designers than individual users. The wizard at the moment already gives 12 different options. OK, none of them matches exactly what you want, and maybe we could tweak them to be more in line with standards. But exposing fully customizable date and time format seems overkill. There's some advantage in being able to expect some degree of consistency across the site in dates being recognizable as dates.