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Draft: Extend dateformat lib file to handle dates better

Lukas Eipert requested to merge leipert-improve-dateformat-proposal into master

What does this MR do and why?

At times we use masks like dd mmm when semantically we actually just want the "short month" name + "days". Different languages have different order of month / day, so tying the order to be fixed seems kind of bad (see: !96376 (closed))

Luckily we could use the browser APIs for this, namely Intl.DateTimeFormat's format option. Eventuelly we could use it to replace dateformat completely if we find a good mapping for any dateformat mask we currently use. Might even enable us to reduce the amounts of masks we use.

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