docs/mkdmt-src/src/man/getFormats.md

In eddelbuettel/anytime: Anything to 'POSIXct' or 'Date' Converter

Functions to retrieve, set or remove formats used for parsing dates.

Description

The time and date parsing and conversion relies on trying a (given and fixed) number of timeformats. The format used is the one employed by the underlying implementation of the Boost date_time library.

Usage

getFormats()

addFormats(fmt)

removeFormats(fmt)

Arguments

| | | |-------|------------------------------------------------------------------------| | fmt | A vector of character values in the form understood by Boost date_time |

Value

Nothing in the case of addFormats; a character vector of formats in the case of getFormats

Author(s)

Dirk Eddelbuettel

See Also

anytime-package and references therein

Examples

  getFormats()
  addFormats(c("%d %b %y",      # two-digit date [not recommended], textual month
               "%a %b %d %Y"))  # weekday weeknumber four-digit year
  removeFormats("%d %b %y")     # remove first

eddelbuettel/anytime documentation built on Sept. 22, 2023, 11:51 p.m.