date: support MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss] positional argument for setting date

[aguimaraes]

Fixes #6398

The date command accepts a bare positional argument to set the system clock:

date 03271430 # March 27, 14:30, current year
date 0327143025 # 2-digit year (25 -> 2025)
date 032714302025 # 4-digit year
date 032714302025.30 # with seconds

Previously, any positional argument without a + prefix was rejected with "invalid date". This was already documented in the usage string but never implemented.

The parser lives in date.rs rather than the parse_datetime crate because this format is specific to the date command positional argument. It follows the existing pattern in this codebase where touch has its own parse_timestamp() for the similar [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.ss] format.

The implementation rearranges the input into CCYYMMDDhhmm[.ss] and delegates to jiff::fmt::strtime::parse for validation, same approach as touch::parse_timestamp(). Two-digit years use the same century rule as touch: 00-68 -> 20xx, 69-99 -> 19xx.

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GNU test failed: tests/misc/io-errors. tests/misc/io-errors is passing on 'main'. Maybe you have to rebase?
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[codspeed-hq]

Merging this PR will improve performance by 5.55%

⚡ 1 improved benchmark
✅ 301 untouched benchmarks
⏩ 46 skipped benchmarks¹

Performance Changes

	Mode	Benchmark	BASE	HEAD	Efficiency
⚡	Simulation	cp_large_file[16]	279.2 µs	264.5 µs	+5.55%

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_{Comparing aguimaraes:date-positional-set-format (db92a25) with main (319a06c)}

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. ↩

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[sylvestre]

could you please add some unit tests for this function

[aguimaraes]

sure, working on it right now

[aguimaraes]

done, I think that works, do you need me to rebase?
The fuzzer found a crash but I think it was pre-existing and I saw some PRs to solve it.

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Skipping an intermittent issue tests/date/date-locale-hour (passes in this run but fails in the 'main' branch)
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