bug#52525: wanted to add option to date command to handle pure numeric input in varying ways and output for invalid dates

[Paul Eggert]

On 12/15/21 14:24, Mike Marchywka wrote:

> if date is
> going to be a swiss army knife for date conversions
> it makes some sense to allow user selection of
> ambiguity resolution doesn't it?

There are thousands of possible data conversions and I'm not sure we 
want to head down the road of trying to handle them all.

That being said, this particular conversion might be worth the trouble. 
However, 'date' uses the same date parser that a lot of other GNU 
programs do. Surely if there's a change to be made to date parsing it 
should be made there, not just to 'date', so that all the other programs 
can use the new functionality.