[R] chron and locales

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Detlef Steuer wrote:

> (R-1.6.0 and chron 2.2, linux)

This appears to have nothing to do with chron!

> I have to work with date/time values from another LOCALE
> on my machine. My normal locale is "de DE at euro" and
> the data I have to handle use AM/PM specifications for the times.
>
> dstring <- "Nov 12 2001  4:31PM"
>
> The problem now is, that
> strptime(dstring, "%b %d %Y %I:%M%p")
> [1] "2001-11-12 04:31:00"
>
> just ignores my times coming from another locale.
>
> I have a workaroud (kind of) in setting my LANG enviroment to C
> before starting R, but I hope for a better, more portable solution.
> Any hints?

That's what Sys.setlocale is for, as illustrated on the help page
for strptime (!)

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