DateTimeProvider: add fuzzy parser to allow all sorts of date formats

ropensci / charlatan

Create fake data in R

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Open sckott opened 5 years ago

sckott commented 5 years ago

lubridate not an option, too many deps
https://github.com/gaborcsardi/parsedate maybe, but no time zone support that I need
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/anytime/ Rcpp and BH though, pretty heavy, though we do already import tibble, so Rcpp is already needed

sckott commented 5 years ago

gabor suggested calling as.POSIXlt on the result https://github.com/gaborcsardi/parsedate/issues/25

as.POSIXlt(parsedate::parse_date("January 4, 1981 15:00:00"), tz="UTC")
#> [1] "1981-01-04 15:00:00 UTC"

seems to do the job. will investigate further.

also do performance comparisons