Except that I think, in colloquial English at least, no one refers to the year as "twelve fifteen" except verbally.
OK, is "It was nineteen forty-seven" 1947-00-00 or 19:47:00?
The latter. As I said, the only instance of using spelled out years that I can imagine in normal usage would be instances like "seventeen hundred and seventy six" where you get both the "hundred" and "and" to play with in determining which it was.
If you are imaging you can take machine translated spoken text, I think you are going to be a very disappointed programmer. ;~) Perhaps you need to have an attribute of your output which scores the confidence level (perhaps by throwing a warning that the input was not consistent).
John
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