diff --git a/src/uu/date/src/date.rs b/src/uu/date/src/date.rs
index bc50a8a2c..76b245923 100644
--- a/src/uu/date/src/date.rs
+++ b/src/uu/date/src/date.rs
@@ -404,9 +404,8 @@ fn make_format_string(settings: &Settings) -> &str {
 /// If it fails, return a tuple of the `String` along with its `ParseError`.
 fn parse_date<S: AsRef<str> + Clone>(
     s: S,
-) -> Result<DateTime<FixedOffset>, (String, chrono::format::ParseError)> {
-    // TODO: The GNU date command can parse a wide variety of inputs.
-    s.as_ref().parse().map_err(|e| (s.as_ref().into(), e))
+) -> Result<DateTime<FixedOffset>, (String, parse_datetime::ParseDateTimeError)> {
+    parse_datetime::parse_datetime(s.as_ref()).map_err(|e| (s.as_ref().into(), e))
 }
 
 #[cfg(not(any(unix, windows)))]
diff --git a/tests/by-util/test_date.rs b/tests/by-util/test_date.rs
index def3fa8af..f45b81cb5 100644
--- a/tests/by-util/test_date.rs
+++ b/tests/by-util/test_date.rs
@@ -409,3 +409,20 @@ fn test_date_overflow() {
         .no_stdout()
         .stderr_contains("invalid date");
 }
+
+#[test]
+fn test_date_parse_from_format() {
+    let (at, mut ucmd) = at_and_ucmd!();
+    const FILE: &str = "file-with-dates";
+
+    at.write(
+        FILE,
+        "2023-03-27 08:30:00\n\
+         2023-04-01 12:00:00\n\
+         2023-04-15 18:30:00",
+    );
+    ucmd.arg("-f")
+        .arg(at.plus(FILE))
+        .arg("+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
+        .succeeds();
+}