This ticket will cover the implementation of:

• parse_date_time() for year, month, and date components, as a precursor to ARROW-16394

  Will be followed-up by a ARROW-16407 to implement to support other datetime components (hours, minutes, seconds) for parse_date_time()

Reporter: Nicola Crane / @thisisnic
Assignee: Dragoș Moldovan-Grünfeld / @dragosmg

Related issues:

• [R] strptime should return NA (not error) with format mismatch (is blocked by)
• [R] Extend the parse_date_time() binding to cover hour, dates, and minutes components (split to)
• [R] Implement lubridate's individual date/time parsers (is depended upon by)

PRs and other links:

• GitHub Pull Request #12589

_{Note: This issue was originally created as ARROW-14848. Please see the migration documentation for further details.}