Parsing today in unix format works fine but not with other dates

[sushmar-sportsbet]

Hi, I'm having an issue while parsing the following input in Template to render.

{% assign today = 'now' | date: '%s' %}. → gives parsing outcome as → 1726121266// correct output
{% assign mar_1st = '1 Mar' | date: '%s' %} -> gives parsing outcome as → 1 Mar //incorrect output expecting unix format

@bkiers @msangel Will you please review this one?

[msangel]

@sushmar-sportsbet sure will take a look