Hi!
The bug 51866 was reclassified as docs bug, but I still think it makes a
lot of sense to allow for lenient date parsing. And it's quite easy to
do IMHO - the parser can easily stop at the end of the data or format it
needed and not treat it as an error. And it would help working with user
date/time inputs where parts can be missing and format it not known to
the code (i.e. user-defined). Since with user-specified format it's hard
to know what is missing without actually parsing the date, so making
code that can parse both date+time and just date (assuming, for example,
midnight of the same date) is a lot harder than it should be.
So, I propose making some option that would allow the parser to parse
strings that have less or more data than the pattern requires. It may be
implemented either as format character (I'd suggest ? at the end) or as
an optional parameter. What do you think?
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