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Detect uppercase date time formats #165

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@zeehio zeehio commented Mar 29, 2016

Hi,

The dates-1900.xls once opened and saved using LibreOffice 5 was not readable by readxl (it detected dates as numbers).

This patch allows to detect uppercase date time formats (used at least by libreoffice). A test case is included. Note that the test fails due to different autogenerated col_names in xls and xlsx

EDIT: Excel is able to parse the file so I assumed that readxl should be capable too, otherwise the pull request would have gone to libreoffice.

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Note that this closes #134.

@zeehio I guess it's best to amend the commit message so the issue closing happens automatically?

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zeehio commented Dec 7, 2016

I updated the commit message. Please note that readxl has been like this for 8 months, so the chances of this being merged in the next few days are not huge. Hopefully eventually someone will work a bit on the package and will deal with the increasing number of pull requests.

(I am just another random readxl user, there is not much more I can do)

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I hear you, there are a couple of good PRs that would improve the package a lot but it appears it's been on the shelf for some time

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jennybc commented Dec 8, 2016

@MichaelChirico readxl and these PRs will get handled in early 2017

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hadley commented Jan 18, 2017

Looks good. Can you please add a bullet to NEWS.md?

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zeehio commented Jan 19, 2017

Rebased on master and done

@jennybc jennybc merged commit affa367 into tidyverse:master Jan 19, 2017
@zeehio zeehio deleted the fix_datetimes_libreoffice branch January 19, 2017 17:17
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