• Why use an array and not a hash?
• You are missing "m" (month, no leading zero - maybe "%e")
• You are missing "w" (day of week: "%w" or "%u")
• You are missing "ww" (week: "%V" or "%U")
• You are missing "M" (minute, no leading zero)
• You are missing "+hhmm" (time zone: "%z")
• You are missing "+hh:mm" (time zone: "%:z")
• You are missing "+hh:mm:ss" (time zone: "%::z")

In many of these human readable formats, "A" is considered AM/PM

In some (many?) lower case "h" is considered the shortcut for 12-hour version of "H" (likewise for "hh" vs "HH")

What do you do with "yyy"? Leave it as is?

Is having "ZZZ" a suggestion for time zone abbreviation "%Z"?

Is having "j" or "ddddd" or maybe even "d#" a suggestion for day of year ("%j")?

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