additional RFC822-style format (closes #21)

eddelbuettel · Oct 23, 2016 · 69c1fe8 · 69c1fe8
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diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2016-10-23  Dirk Eddelbuettel  <edd@debian.org>
+
+	* src/anytime.cpp (sformats[]): New format for RFC 822 style date
+	* tests/allFormats.R: New test
+
 2016-10-22  Dirk Eddelbuettel  <edd@debian.org>
 
 	* NAMESPACE: Adding utctime() and utcdate() to export()
@@ -54,7 +59,7 @@
 
 2016-10-14  Dirk Eddelbuettel  <edd@debian.org>
 
-	* src/anytime.cpp (sformats[]]): Add several new date(time) formats
+	* src/anytime.cpp (sformats[]): Add several new date(time) formats
 	of the 14OCT2016 variety, with and without hours/minutes
 
 	* tests/allFormats.R: Add new tests as well

diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 Package: anytime
 Type: Package
 Title: Anything to 'POSIXct' or 'Date' Converter
-Version: 0.0.4.1
-Date: 2016-10-22
+Version: 0.0.4.2
+Date: 2016-10-23
 Author: Dirk Eddelbuettel
 Maintainer: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>
 Description: Convert input in any one of character, integer, numeric, factor,

diff --git a/src/anytime.cpp b/src/anytime.cpp
@@ -60,6 +60,9 @@ const std::string sformats[] = {
     // see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/39259184/formatting-dates-with-r for next one
     "%a %b %d %H:%M:%S%F %Y",
 
+    // see RFC 822 and standard Unix use eg mail headers (but no TZ or UTC offset on input :-/ )
+    "%a %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S%F", 
+
     "%Y-%m-%d",
     "%Y%m%d",
     "%m/%d/%Y",

diff --git a/tests/allFormats.R b/tests/allFormats.R
@@ -35,6 +35,9 @@ anytime(c("01.September.2016 10:11:12", "01.September.2016 10:11:12.345678"))
 cat("\n")
 anytime(c("Thu Sep 01 10:11:12 2016", "Thu Sep 01 10:11:12.345678 2016"))
 
+cat("\n")
+anytime(c("Thu 01 Sep 2016 10:11:12", "Thu 01 Sep 2016 10:11:12.345678"))
+
 cat("\n")
 anytime(c("2016-09-01", "20160901", "09/01/2016", "09-01-2016"))