I have data that I know will contain a few bad dates. I want to
suppress the error messages.  Redirection isn't working.  Is there
anything I can do?

coreutils version 8.28-1ubuntu1 on Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS

$ x=$(date --date="bad" +%s) > /dev/null 2>&1 
date: invalid date ‘bad’

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