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Another format? #47

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eddelbuettel opened this issue Feb 4, 2017 · 0 comments

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eddelbuettel commented Feb 4, 2017

A common format is "Thu Jan 17 09:29:10 EST 2013" but the %Z conversion only works on output.
Hence:

R> library(anytime)
R> anytime("Thu Jan 17 09:29:10 EST 2013")
[1] NA
R> anytime:::testFormat("%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %z %Y", "Thu Jan 17 09:29:10 EST 2013")
[1] NA
R> anytime:::testFormat("%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Z %Y", "Thu Jan 17 09:29:10 EST 2013")
[1] NA

One can substitute the timezone out:

R> anytime("Thu Jan 17 09:29:10  2013")
[1] "2013-01-17 09:29:10 CST"
R>

but that is hackish.

A better trick seems to be to just block the three letters with some text, here xxx:

R> anytime:::testFormat("%a %b %d %H:%M:%S xxx %Y", "Thu Jan 17 09:29:10 EST 2013")
[1] "2013-01-17 09:29:10 CST"
R>

That is probably more useful and worth adding.

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