month Maggio (May) not recognized with locale it_IT

[matteogrolla]

ymd("1975, maggio 12")
[1] NA
Warning message:
All formats failed to parse. No formats found.

dmy("12 maggio 1975")
[1] NA
Warning message:
All formats failed to parse. No formats found.

[vspinu]

What do format(ymd("1975-05-12"), "%b") and format(ymd("1975-05-12"), "%B") return?

I guess it's a capitalization issue. Does the dmy("12 Maggio 1975") work?

[matteogrolla]

dmy("12 Maggio 1975")
[1] NA
Warning message:
All formats failed to parse. No formats found.

format(ymd("1975-05-12"), "%b")
[1] "Mag"

format(ymd("1975-05-12"), "%B")
[1] "Maggio"

[vspinu]

That's strange. Can you parse it with strptime("1975 Maggio 12", "%Y %B %d")?

[matteogrolla]

strptime("1975 Maggio 12", "%Y %B %d")
[1] "1975-05-12 CET"

[vspinu]

Ok. It's our bug. I will install Italian locale and will try to reproduce and fix asap.

[matteogrolla]

Wonderful, thanks!

[vspinu]

It turned out that abreviated day for Sunday is "gio" which was interfering with "maggio". So lubridate was trying %y-%b%a-%d format. Should be fixed now.