dat <- c("Saturday 31 August 2013", "Sun 12 Jan 2014")
parse_date_time(x = dat, orders = c("a d b y"), locale = "eng")
# [1] NA NA
# Warning message:
# All formats failed to parse. No formats found.
parse_date_time(x = dat, orders = c("A d b y"), locale = "eng")
# [1] NA NA
# Warning message:
# All formats failed to parse. No formats found.
parse_date_time(x = dat, orders = c("d b y"), locale = "eng")
# [1] "2013-08-31 UTC" "2014-01-12 UTC"
lubridate_1.3.3
If dates contains a full or abbreviated weekday,
parse_date_timefails if weekday (Aora) is specified inorder. However, such dates are parsed correctly if weekday is not specified inorder: