def METHOD_NAME(date):
    """Wraps numeric_date() for argparse usage.
    This raises an ArgumentTypeError from InvalidDateFormat exceptions, otherwise the custom exception message won't be shown in console output due to:
    https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/5c4d1f6e0e192653560ae2941a6677fbf4fbd1f2/Lib/argparse.py#L2503-L2513
    """
    try:
        return numeric_date(date)
    except InvalidDate as error:
        raise argparse.ArgumentTypeError(str(error)) from error