Move & reword

Author: StanFromIreland

Doc/library/datetime.rst

@@ -2495,11 +2495,6 @@ These methods accept format codes that can be used to parse and format dates::
    >>> _.strftime('%a %d %b %Y, %I:%M%p')
    'Mon 31 Jan 2022, 11:59PM'
 
-The user has to make sure, though, that the input can be parsed in a unambiguous
-way. The string ``2025112`` can be parsed using the format ``%Y%m%d`` as ``2025-1-12``,
-``2025-11-2``, or even ``20251-1-2``. It is necessary to add appropriate separators to
-reliably get results.
-
 The following is a list of all the format codes that the 2011 C standard
 requires, and these work on all supported platforms.
 
@@ -2694,6 +2689,11 @@ For the :meth:`.datetime.strptime` and :meth:`.date.strptime` class methods,
 the default value is ``1900-01-01T00:00:00.000``: any components not specified
 in the format string will be pulled from the default value.
 
+.. note::
+   Format strings without separators can be ambiguous for parsing. For
+   example, ``%Y%m%d`` parses the string ``2026111`` as ``2026-11-01``,
+   not ``2026-01-11``. Use separators to ensure the input is parsed as intended.
+
 .. note::
    When used to parse partial dates lacking a year, :meth:`.datetime.strptime`
    and :meth:`.date.strptime` will raise when encountering February 29 because