date: support european dates and out-of-range years

[MuntasirSZN]

date accepts DAY.MONTH[.YEAR] dates (yearless forms use the current
year) and years beyond 9999 with any format. uutils/coreutils rejected both,
failing parts of tests/date/date.pl.

Rewrite european dates to ISO before parsing; accept extended years for
all output formats. Adds unit and integration tests.

tests/date/date.pl gnu test now passes.

Signed-off-by: MuntasirSZN muntasir.joypurhat@gmail.com

[codspeed-hq]

Merging this PR will regress 3 benchmarks

⚡ 4 improved benchmarks
❌ 3 regressed benchmarks
✅ 340 untouched benchmarks
⏩ 46 skipped benchmarks¹

Warning

Please fix the performance issues or acknowledge them on CodSpeed.

Performance Changes

	Mode	Benchmark	BASE	HEAD	Efficiency
❌	Simulation	file_custom_format	37.3 ms	40.1 ms	-7.1%
❌	Simulation	file_iso_dates	41.2 ms	43.2 ms	-4.72%
❌	Simulation	file_tz_abbreviations	47.5 ms	49 ms	-3.07%
⚡	Simulation	ls_recursive_deep_tree[(200, 2)]	3.6 ms	3.4 ms	+5.13%
⚡	Simulation	du_max_depth_balanced_tree[(6, 4, 10)]	63.2 ms	60.2 ms	+5.04%
⚡	Simulation	du_summarize_balanced_tree[(5, 4, 10)]	16.2 ms	15.5 ms	+4.45%
⚡	Simulation	du_wide_tree[(5000, 500)]	20.8 ms	20.1 ms	+3.63%

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_{Comparing MuntasirSZN:date-pl (8cff432) with main (9f29502)}

Footnotes

1. 46 benchmarks were skipped, so the baseline results were used instead. If they were deleted from the codebase, click here and archive them to remove them from the performance reports. ↩

[github-actions]

GNU testsuite comparison:

Skip an intermittent issue tests/date/date-locale-hour (fails in this run but passes in the 'main' branch)
Skip an intermittent issue tests/date/resolution (fails in this run but passes in the 'main' branch)
Skipping an intermittent issue tests/tail/tail-n0f (passes in this run but fails in the 'main' branch)
Congrats! The gnu test tests/date/date is no longer failing!

[collinfunk]

These tests are copied from GNU coreutils and should be licensed as such.

[MuntasirSZN]

These tests are copied from GNU coreutils and should be licensed as such.

Ok I gave attribution

[xtqqczze]

These tests are copied from GNU coreutils and should be licensed as such.

As per CONTRIBUTING.md, we cannot accept any changes based on the GNU source code. I recommend closing this PR and starting again from scratch.

[sylvestre]

yeah, you need to rewrite the tests

[MuntasirSZN]

yeah, you need to rewrite the tests

Ok doing it....

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Binary size comparison:

Individual binary size comparison VS main (threshold: >=5% AND >=4 KB).

Total size of compared binaries: 147.41 MB (-288 KB, -0.19%)

Significant per-binary changes:
  mkfifo      1.16 MB ->    1.08 MB  (-76 KB, -6.42%)
  mknod       1.16 MB ->    1.09 MB  (-76 KB, -6.38%)
  install     1.31 MB ->    1.24 MB  (-72 KB, -5.36%)
  mkdir       1.16 MB ->    1.09 MB  (-72 KB, -6.04%)