Parse date/time — parse

Can be used to parse dates appearing in http response headers such as Expires or Last-Modified. Automatically recognizes most common formats. If the format is known, strptime() might be easier.

parse_date(datestring)

Arguments

datestring: a string consisting of a timestamp

Examples

# Parse dates in many formats
parse_date("Sunday, 06-Nov-94 08:49:37 GMT")
#> [1] "1994-11-06 08:49:37 UTC"
parse_date("06 Nov 1994 08:49:37")
#> [1] "1994-11-06 08:49:37 UTC"
parse_date("20040911 +0200")
#> [1] "2004-09-10 22:00:00 UTC"