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WARN: warning shown when parsing delimited date string even if users can't do anything about it #50231

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Reproducible Example

In [2]: Timestamp('13-01-2000')
<ipython-input-2-710ff60ba7e6>:1: UserWarning: Parsing dates in DD/MM/YYYY format when dayfirst=False (the default) was specified. This may lead to inconsistently parsed dates! Specify a format to ensure consistent parsing.
  Timestamp('13-01-2000')
Out[2]: Timestamp('2000-01-13 00:00:00')

Issue Description

This was added in #42908

This helped warn about some of the inconsistencies in #12585, but it's now unnecessary

This warning only shows up when using Timestamp - however, users can't pass format or dayfirst to Timestamp, so the warning is unnecessary

If people use to_datetime, there's already the more informative message(s) from PDEP4:

In [1]: to_datetime('13-01-2000')
<ipython-input-1-9a129e754905>:1: UserWarning: Parsing dates in %d-%m-%Y format when dayfirst=False was specified. Pass `dayfirst=True` or specify a format to silence this warning.
  to_datetime('13-01-2000')
Out[1]: Timestamp('2000-01-13 00:00:00')

If we remove the warning from parse_delimited_date, then to_datetime will keep its informative warnings from PDEP4, and Timestamp will no longer show a warning which users can't do anything about

Expected Behavior

In [2]: Timestamp('13-01-2000')
Out[2]: Timestamp('2000-01-13 00:00:00')

Installed Versions

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "/home/marcogorelli/pandas-dev/pandas/util/_print_versions.py", line 109, in show_versions
deps = _get_dependency_info()
File "/home/marcogorelli/pandas-dev/pandas/util/_print_versions.py", line 88, in _get_dependency_info
mod = import_optional_dependency(modname, errors="ignore")
File "/home/marcogorelli/pandas-dev/pandas/compat/_optional.py", line 142, in import_optional_dependency
module = importlib.import_module(name)
File "/home/marcogorelli/mambaforge/envs/pandas-dev/lib/python3.8/importlib/init.py", line 127, in import_module
return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
File "", line 1014, in _gcd_import
File "", line 991, in _find_and_load
File "", line 975, in _find_and_load_unlocked
File "", line 671, in _load_unlocked
File "", line 843, in exec_module
File "", line 219, in _call_with_frames_removed
File "/home/marcogorelli/mambaforge/envs/pandas-dev/lib/python3.8/site-packages/numba/init.py", line 42, in
from numba.np.ufunc import (vectorize, guvectorize, threading_layer,
File "/home/marcogorelli/mambaforge/envs/pandas-dev/lib/python3.8/site-packages/numba/np/ufunc/init.py", line 3, in
from numba.np.ufunc.decorators import Vectorize, GUVectorize, vectorize, guvectorize
File "/home/marcogorelli/mambaforge/envs/pandas-dev/lib/python3.8/site-packages/numba/np/ufunc/decorators.py", line 3, in
from numba.np.ufunc import _internal
SystemError: initialization of _internal failed without raising an exception

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