date: date doesn't accept dates with missing years

Author: Devel08Created Sep 17, 2026Updated Sep 17, 2026

LabelsU - date

discovered by @cakebaker in #14614 uutils:

$ cargo run date -d "01.01. 03:00 p.m."
    Finished `dev` profile [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.16s
     Running `target/debug/coreutils date -d '01.01. 03:00 p.m.'`
date: invalid date '01.01. 03:00 p.m.'

GNU:

$ date -d "01.01. 03:00 p.m."
Thu Jan  1 03:00:00 PM EET 2026

Source: uutils/coreutils

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