From 9c95c9549b155c81cc4644b5eca66b7c21af5451 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Hofstetter <daniel.hofstetter@42dh.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2025 10:23:52 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] feat: support formats Nov-14-2024/November-14-2024

---
 src/items/date.rs | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/items/date.rs b/src/items/date.rs
index 34533db..5de3351 100644
--- a/src/items/date.rs
+++ b/src/items/date.rs
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ impl TryFrom<Date> for jiff::civil::Date {
 }
 
 pub(super) fn parse(input: &mut &str) -> ModalResult<Date> {
-    alt((iso1, iso2, us, literal1, literal2)).parse_next(input)
+    alt((iso1, iso2, us, literal1, literal2, literal3)).parse_next(input)
 }
 
 /// Parse `[year]-[month]-[day]`
@@ -252,6 +252,18 @@ fn literal2(input: &mut &str) -> ModalResult<Date> {
     }
 }
 
+/// Parse `November-14-2022` and `Nov-14-2022`. Unlike `literal2`, the year is mandatory
+/// to match the behavior of GNU `date`.
+fn literal3(input: &mut &str) -> ModalResult<Date> {
+    let (month, _, day, _, year) =
+        (s(literal_month), s('-'), s(dec_uint), s('-'), year_str).parse_next(input)?;
+
+    // Map err to Backtrack instead of Cut to avoid early termination of parsing
+    (year, month, day)
+        .try_into()
+        .map_err(|e| ErrMode::Backtrack(ctx_err(e)))
+}
+
 /// Parse the name of a month (case-insensitive)
 fn literal_month(input: &mut &str) -> ModalResult<u8> {
     s(alpha1)
@@ -549,6 +561,27 @@ mod tests {
         assert_eq!(s, ", 2022a");
     }
 
+    #[test]
+    fn literal3() {
+        let reference = Date {
+            year: Some(2022),
+            month: 11,
+            day: 14,
+        };
+
+        for mut s in [
+            "november-14-2022",
+            "november----14----2022",
+            "november  -  14   -  2022",
+            "nov-14-2022",
+            "nov---14---2022",
+            "nov  -   14    -   2022",
+        ] {
+            let old_s = s.to_owned();
+            assert_eq!(parse(&mut s).unwrap(), reference, "Format string: {old_s}");
+        }
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn with_year() {
         let reference = Date {