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Feature Request: Add support for custom date formatting #8060

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@dustinStratis

It would be beneficial to allow users to specify custom date formatting patterns beyond the built-in ones. This would increase flexibility and cater to specific regional or application needs.

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  1. kluever commented on Oct 27, 2025

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    @dustinStratis Can you expand on this a bit more? Which explicit date formats do you want formatters for? Does this have any interaction with other APIs in Guava, or are you just looking for a class w/ some DateTimeFormatters? Guava has mostly resisted the urge to add a new package like com.google.common.time in favor of both improving java.time as well as ThreeTenExtra

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  3. kluever commented on Oct 27, 2025

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    A colleague reminded me of https://github.com/google/mug/tree/master/mug/src/main/java/com/google/mu/time which is authored by another Googler (and Guava contributor), @fluentfuture --- that might serve your needs.

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