This PR is based on #6988 , thanks to adrian-wang .

This brings two SQL functions: to_date() and trunc().

Closes #6988

Author: Daoyuan Wang <daoyuan.wang@intel.com>
Author: Davies Liu <davies@databricks.com>

Closes #7805 from davies/to_date and squashes the following commits:

2c7beba [Davies Liu] Merge branch 'master' of github.com:apache/spark into to_date
310dd55 [Daoyuan Wang] remove dup test in rebase
980b092 [Daoyuan Wang] resolve rebase conflict
a476c5a [Daoyuan Wang] address comments from davies
d44ea5f [Daoyuan Wang] function to_date, trunc