[C++] Remove the vendored datetime fallback when toolchain support permits
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### Describe the enhancement requested
#51216 makes `std::chrono` the default datetime backend and removes vendored datetime dependencies from standard-backend binaries. However most builds still default to vendored `date.h` library. The vendored fallback must remain for unsupported standard libraries.
This requires:
- Raising the minimum Linux libstdc++ version to GCC 16.2 or newer.
- Apple libc++ providing working C++20 timezone and formatting APIs.
- Migrating Rtools40 and MSYS2 Clang64 builds.
- Validating Emscripten, and other supported targets.
- Retiring the ARROW_USE_STD_CHRONO=0 override.
Once all supported toolchains use `std::chrono`, remove the vendored sources and build plumbing (e.g. `reload_tzdb`). The Windows text-tzdb configuration APIs, including the deprecated Python API and R initialization, can also be removed once no supported Windows build uses the fallback.
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