Given that this breakage impacts all usage of sub-second resolution
usage of "date" (other than if explicit nanosecond is requested), could
this fix perhaps be implemented and applied to the "stable?!" Ubuntu
26.04 LTS release as soon as possible given that it does exists
upstream.

As far as I can see in the Ubuntu package for the "stable" (not so
stable it turned out) long-term support 26.04 is NOT yet fixed!? and
having just encountered this issue myself I am a bit shocked that the
transition to Rust implementation of coreutils progressed this far
without first having proper checks in place to ensure the interface of
functions like "date" did not break...

(PS. I understand and fully support the move to Rust based tools, but
please make sure these versions of the tools do input and output the
same way as the old gnu coreutils before the transition as many, many
user scripts and tools depend on core tools like for instance "date",
"sudo" etc.. d.s.).

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Title:
  date: width prefix in %N format specifier is ignored ( %3N, %6N always
  output full 9 nanosecond digits)

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