I remember we had the same problem parsing time formats. Can't remember any specifics though (might have been timezone offsets), but I think parsing would be less error prone when there wouldn't be that magic date time formatting by example style used.

I can totally understand that it is often easier to use, but compatibility with strftime is good for the experienced developer. There is a reason, why sites like [1] and several 3rd party libs [2] exist.

[1]: http://fuckinggodateformat.com/

[2]: https://github.com/search?q=language%3Ago+strftime&ref=searc...