Format recognition

Tries to recognize the date/time format.

whichFormat(charvec, silent = FALSE)

Arguments

charvec

a character string or vector of dates and times.

silent

a logical flag. Should a warning be printed if the format cannot be recognized?

Value

a format string

See also

midnightStandard

Examples

whichFormat("2007-12-31 00:00:00")
#> [1] "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"
whichFormat("2007-12-31 24:00")
#> [1] "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M"