date input: `HH:MM am/pm` forms rejected (e.g. `2024-06-15 12:00 PM`)

[sylvestre]

Summary

parse_datetime accepts 3pm and 2024-06-15 3pm, but rejects the HH:MM am/pm forms that GNU date handles fine.

Found by a fuzz_date run on uutils/coreutils.

Reproduction

$ /usr/bin/date -d '2024-06-15 12:00 PM' '+%H:%M'
12:00
$ target/debug/coreutils date -d '2024-06-15 12:00 PM' '+%H:%M'
date: invalid date '2024-06-15 12:00 PM'

$ /usr/bin/date -d '2024-06-15 11:30am' '+%H:%M'
11:30
$ target/debug/coreutils date -d '2024-06-15 11:30am' '+%H:%M'
date: invalid date '2024-06-15 11:30am'

$ /usr/bin/date -d '2024-06-15 3:00 PM' '+%H:%M'
15:00
$ target/debug/coreutils date -d '2024-06-15 3:00 PM' '+%H:%M'
date: invalid date '2024-06-15 3:00 PM'

The forms that already work for reference:

$ target/debug/coreutils date -d '3pm' '+%H:%M'
15:00
$ target/debug/coreutils date -d '2024-06-15 3pm' '+%H:%M'
15:00

Test (in uutils/coreutils integration suite)

#[test]
fn test_date_input_hhmm_ampm() {
 for input in [
 "2024-06-15 12:00 PM",
 "2024-06-15 11:30am",
 "2024-06-15 3:00 PM",
 ] {
 new_ucmd!()
 .env("LC_ALL", "C")
 .env("TZ", "UTC")
 .arg("-d")
 .arg(input)
 .arg("+%H:%M")
 .succeeds();
 }
}