[Bug 2125654] [NEW] date: invalid date 'TZ="GMT+12" last year 12:00'

[Julian Andres Klode]

Public bug reported:

date --date='TZ="GMT+12" last year 12:00'
date: invalid date 'TZ="GMT+12" last year 12:00'

As seen in
https://objectstorage.prodstack5.canonical.com/swift/v1/AUTH_0f9aae918d5b4744bf7b827671c86842/autopkgtest-
questing/questing/arm64/i/img2pdf/20250924_194949_b7f6c@/log.gz - that
is the img2pdf test suite

** Affects: coreutils
     Importance: Unknown
         Status: Unknown

** Affects: rust-coreutils (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Bug watch added: github.com/uutils/parse_datetime/issues #233
   https://github.com/uutils/parse_datetime/issues/233

** Also affects: coreutils via
   https://github.com/uutils/parse_datetime/issues/233
   Importance: Unknown
       Status: Unknown

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Title:
  date: invalid date 'TZ="GMT+12" last year 12:00'

Status in coreutils:
  Unknown
Status in rust-coreutils package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  date --date='TZ="GMT+12" last year 12:00'
  date: invalid date 'TZ="GMT+12" last year 12:00'

  As seen in
  https://objectstorage.prodstack5.canonical.com/swift/v1/AUTH_0f9aae918d5b4744bf7b827671c86842/autopkgtest-
  questing/questing/arm64/i/img2pdf/20250924_194949_b7f6c@/log.gz - that
  is the img2pdf test suite

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