Add conformance tests for Timestamp parsing

In general, runtimes also expose Timestamp parsing by utils but it is conformance-testable via JSON.

Timestamp format is RFC3339 which looks like `1970-01-01T00:00:00Z` (for UTC timestamps) or `1970-01-02T01:00:00+02:00` (with timezone).

There's actually two different reasons why a Timestamp format might be invalid.

RFC3339 spec has some bright line rules as follows:

- All of the segments must be the expected fixed width (eg: month is always 2 digits, 1970-01-01 and not 1970-1-1).
- Year must be [0001 .. 9999]
- Month must be [01 .. 12]
- Day must be valid for the relevant month, including that Feb 29 is only legal in leap years.
- The literal `T` comes next (spec ambiguous if `t` is also allowed, not tested in this change)
- Hour must be [00..23]
- Minute must be [00..59]
- Second must be [00..59]
- Subseconds are unconstrained precision
- Timezone must be Z for UTC or else formatted with HH:MM where HH is [00..23] and MM is [00..59].

Protobuf has a few extra effective constraints compared to RFC3339 though, which are _mostly_ academic:

- We disallow subsecond resolution has more than 9 decimal digits
- Some RFC3339 timestamps which are not-UTC-timezone in year 1 or year 9999 are not valid in Protobuf [*reason explained below]

Note that GoProto uses a std RFC3339 parser and does implement these bonus restrictions rules on top.

* The reason is that `0001-01-01T00:00:00+00:01` is a legal RFC3339 timestamp, but is BCE in UTC timezone. This is an oddity: we otherwise say parsers should accept RFC3339 timestamps with any timezone, but must serialize as UTC. This timestamp is not legally representable in RFC3339 in UTC, and the google.protobuf.Timestamp field secs is documented that `-62135596800` is the minimum legal value, but this timestamp is earlier than that. Because this situation only occurs at the years 1 and 9999 its not plausibly a concern on real user data, its only an oddity that you must either reject this legal RFC3339 timestamp at parse time, or else accept it but produce an in-memory google.protobuf.Timestamp which is officially 'invalid' and cannot be printed back out.

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README.md

Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format

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Overview

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This README file contains protobuf installation instructions. To install protobuf, you need to install the protocol compiler (used to compile .proto files) and the protobuf runtime for your chosen programming language.

Working With Protobuf Source Code

Most users will find working from supported releases to be the easiest path.

If you choose to work from the head revision of the main branch your build will occasionally be broken by source-incompatible changes and insufficiently-tested (and therefore broken) behavior.

If you are using C++ or otherwise need to build protobuf from source as a part of your project, you should pin to a release commit on a release branch.

This is because even release branches can experience some instability in between release commits.

Bazel with Bzlmod

Protobuf supports Bzlmod with Bazel 8 +. Users should specify a dependency on protobuf in their MODULE.bazel file as follows.

bazel_dep(name = "protobuf", version = <VERSION>)

Users can optionally override the repo name, such as for compatibility with WORKSPACE.

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Bazel with WORKSPACE

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Note that with the release of 30.x there are a few more load statements to properly set up rules_java and rules_python.

http_archive(
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    strip_prefix = "protobuf-VERSION",
    sha256 = ...,
    url = ...,
)

load("@com_google_protobuf//:protobuf_deps.bzl", "protobuf_deps")

protobuf_deps()

load("@rules_java//java:rules_java_deps.bzl", "rules_java_dependencies")

rules_java_dependencies()

load("@rules_java//java:repositories.bzl", "rules_java_toolchains")

rules_java_toolchains()

load("@rules_python//python:repositories.bzl", "py_repositories")

py_repositories()

Protobuf Compiler Installation

The protobuf compiler is written in C++. If you are using C++, please follow the C++ Installation Instructions to install protoc along with the C++ runtime.

For non-C++ users, the simplest way to install the protocol compiler is to download a pre-built binary from our GitHub release page.

In the downloads section of each release, you can find pre-built binaries in zip packages: protoc-$VERSION-$PLATFORM.zip. It contains the protoc binary as well as a set of standard .proto files distributed along with protobuf.

If you are looking for an old version that is not available in the release page, check out the Maven repository.

These pre-built binaries are only provided for released versions. If you want to use the github main version at HEAD, or you need to modify protobuf code, or you are using C++, it's recommended to build your own protoc binary from source.

If you would like to build protoc binary from source, see the C++ Installation Instructions.

Protobuf Runtime Installation

Protobuf supports several different programming languages. For each programming language, you can find instructions in the corresponding source directory about how to install protobuf runtime for that specific language:

LanguageSource
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Objective-Cobjectivec
C#csharp
Rubyruby
Goprotocolbuffers/protobuf-go
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Dartdart-lang/protobuf
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Documentation

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