I'd love to have in standard library ability to parse date strings with 
custom formatters defined by accepted formats 
<https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/1.12/Calendar.html#strftime/3-accepted-formats> 
Calendar 
has in place.

I found few libraries that allows me to do this like:
https://elixirforum.com/t/datix-a-date-time-parser-using-calendar-strftime-format-strings/36824
or
https://elixirforum.com/t/date-formats-phoenix-and-ecto/5220/19

To avoid multiple regexes or dependencies to fulfill different client needs 
it could support formats provided in second arg of ie. 
`Date.parse_date("21/05/1985", "%d/%m/%Y")`, it would be opposite of 
`Calendar.strftime` so it would parse a given string, to the date, time or 
datetime.

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