The date and time output format should be possible to override both globally and locally.
Providing a string similar to YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS etc. would allow people to use their preferred
format.
It's also common for people to work with geographically disjoint teams where someone might want to
use a locale agreed upon the whole team to have consistent referring points in time.
The same applies to working on a remote shell where both the timezone and the locale might be
different to the actual locale of the user.
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