[3.14] gh-124549: Document that strptime() uses the last directive when a time unit is over-specified (GH-125009) (#159951)

gh-124549: Document that `strptime()` uses the last directive when a time unit is over-specified (GH-125009)

* Add a note that when over-specifying datetime format, only the last directive gets used.

* adjust and reorganize the notes location, fast forward to latest.

* Update Doc/library/datetime.rst



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(cherry picked from commit fd6ed15)

Co-authored-by: Mariatta <Mariatta@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Stan Ulbrych <stan@python.org>

Author: 3 people

Doc/library/datetime.rst

@@ -2703,6 +2703,13 @@ in the format string will be pulled from the default value.
    the default year of 1900 is *not* a leap year.  Always add a default leap
    year to partial date strings before parsing.
 
+.. note::
+   If a :meth:`~.datetime.strptime` format string contains more than
+   one directive for the same field, for example both ``%Y`` and ``%y``,
+   every directive must still match the input, but only the value of the
+   last one is used. For example, parsing ``200099`` with ``%Y%y`` gives
+   the year 1999. Repeating the same directive, like ``%Y%Y``, raises an error.
+
 .. testsetup::
 
     # doctest seems to turn the warning into an error which makes it