Julia: Dates.parse(::AbstractString, ::DateFormat) removed without deprecation

Julia 0.5 had a Dates.parse function which could parse a string into an Array{Period}. The function was useful for parsing DateTimes which needed modification before constructing a DateTime object.

For example on Julia 0.5:

julia> df = Dates.DateFormat("yyyy-mm-dd HH:MM");

julia> DateTime("2016-03-03 24:00", df)
ERROR: ArgumentError: Hour: 24 out of range (0:23)
 in DateTime(::Int64, ::Int64, ::Int64, ::Int64, ::Int64, ::Int64, ::Int64) at ./dates/types.jl:149
 in DateTime(::Base.Dates.Year, ::Base.Dates.Month, ::Base.Dates.Day, ::Base.Dates.Hour, ::Base.Dates.Minute) at ./dates/types.jl:172
 in DateTime(::String, ::Base.Dates.DateFormat) at ./dates/io.jl:268

julia> Dates.parse("2016-03-03 24:00", df)
5-element Array{Base.Dates.Period,1}:
 2016 years
 3 months  
 3 days    
 24 hours  
 0 minutes 

In Julia 0.6

julia> Dates.parse("2016-03-03 24:00", Dates.DateFormat("yyyy-mm-dd HH:MM"))
ERROR: MethodError: no method matching parse(::String, ::DateFormat{Symbol("yyyy-mm-dd HH:MM"),Tuple{Base.Dates.DatePart{'y'},Base.Dates.Delim{Char,1},Base.Dates.DatePart{'m'},Base.Dates.Delim{Char,1},Base.Dates.DatePart{'d'},Base.Dates.Delim{Char,1},Base.Dates.DatePart{'H'},Base.Dates.Delim{Char,1},Base.Dates.DatePart{'M'}}})
Closest candidates are:
  parse(::AbstractString, ::Int64; greedy, raise) at parse.jl:215
  parse(::AbstractString; raise) at parse.jl:230