o i believe the settings were initially setup wrong and the content for the *.pom files have window line endings, a normal checkout for someone on unix yields a massive number of line ending changes. this change prevents that, but happy if we want to realign the content to be normalized with unix line endings and have git do the auto conversion
Old plexus date configurator ignores AM/PM setting; fixing this breaks unrelated ITs that happen to expect '2008-11-09 11:59:03.0 PM' to be converted to '2008-11-09 11:59:03' so avoid this by changing the input string in those ITs to use 'AM' instead.

Signed-off-by: Jason van Zyl <jason@tesla.io>