Lenient real-world date/time parsing for Go — one shared library for the messy wire-date format zoo, so every consumer stops reinventing its own layout table.

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The lenient parser: RFC 822/1123/2822/3339/5322, asctime, HTTP, 2-digit years, ISO 8601, named-zone abbreviations. Consumed by go-newsgroups/nntp, go-syndication/feed, and go-ruby Time.parse (via go-composites/time).