This should complete the fix for Bug#52209.
* lisp/calendar/time-date.el (date-to-time): Apply
decoded-time-set-defaults only to the output of (parse-time-string
date), and only when the output has a year (to avoid confusion
when dates lack years). There is no point applying it after
timezone-make-date-arpa-standard since the latter fills in all the
blanks. And the former code mistakenly called encode-time on an
already-encoded time. This goes back to the code a couple of days
ago, except with changed behavior (to fix Bug#52209) only when
timezone-make-date-arpa-standard is not called.
* test/lisp/calendar/time-date-tests.el (test-date-to-time)
(test-days-between): New tests.