[FEAT]: allow for implicit coercion between str & date

[codspeed-hq[bot]]

CodSpeed Performance Report

Merging #3337 will degrade performances by 34.15%

_{Comparing universalmind303:date-casting (4dcda56) with main (a9bf7c0)}

Summary

❌ 1 regressions ✅ 16 untouched benchmarks

:warning: Please fix the performance issues or acknowledge them on CodSpeed.

Benchmarks breakdown

	Benchmark	main	universalmind303:date-casting	Change
❌	test_iter_rows_first_row[100 Small Files]	226.6 ms	344.1 ms	-34.15%

[codecov[bot]]

Codecov Report

All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests :white_check_mark:

Project coverage is 77.37%. Comparing base (a9bf7c0) to head (4dcda56). Report is 4 commits behind head on main.

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