change from using fparse to using parse #654
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Over the last week or so I worked with the new dev of the
parselibrary to incorporate the datetime parsing into that library: r1chardj0n3s/parse#165. This was the only feature that motivated the splinter offparse, so we can now move our dependence back toparsewith version >=1.20.0 and archivefparse.There is one small difference in the
parseimplementation, which is that it infers whether the parsed value should be adatetime, adate, or atime. If no time information is present,parsereturns adateobject. NeuroConv expects adatetime, and I think PyNWB requires adatetimefor thesession_start_time, so for backwards compatibility and for better compatibility with PyNWB, I included a line that transformsdates todatetimes when extracting metadata.I'd really like NWB to accept just a date value there, since the actual time is often missing and must be filled in with incorrect data. If NeurodataWithoutBorders/nwb-schema#542 ever gets merged we can switch this back to returning dates when only date information is given. However I don't want that issue to hold up this one so I'd like to move forward with datetimes for now.