datejs/Datejs — Issue #6: Date.normalizeFormat (Date.prototype.$format) should only handled strftime format
Author: masklinn
Created: 2011-11-14 13:50:25+00:00
State: open

Because Date.prototype.$format tries to handle both [date](http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php) and [strftime](http://php.net/strftime) formats at the same time, it becomes impossible to use raw strings (for display) in strftime format strings. a.k.a. it's not possible to write this (straight from PHP's `strftime` docs): `"in Finnish is %A"` as it gets turned into the LDML format string `"mmM MMMMmmMMmmsshh mmss dddd"`