[FR] More flexible date parsing

[richardshiue]

Description

Currently, a placeholder is required to instruct users to input time values in a very specific way (12 hour or 24 hour, with strict spacing). It would be better if the time string were better parsed, ordered in complexity:

• leading, trailing, multiple spaces/tabs ( 6:00 am -> 06:00)
• am, pm with and without period, capitalized or not (am, a.m., AM, A.M.)
• missing spaces or colons (6 00 -> 06:00, 6:00pm)
• a single number to specify an hour (6 -> 06:00, 17 -> 17:00, 6 pm -> 18:00)
• ISO-8601
• words (noon, midnight, eight, six o'clock, half past one, twelve fifty-five)

Impact

Users who enter dates in databases

Additional Context

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