parse_http_date
From httr v1.4.1
by Hadley Wickham
Parse and print http dates.
As defined in RFC2616, http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec3.html#sec3.3, there are three valid formats:
Sun, 06 Nov 1994 08:49:37 GMT ; RFC 822, updated by RFC 1123
Sunday, 06-Nov-94 08:49:37 GMT ; RFC 850, obsoleted by RFC 1036
Sun Nov 6 08:49:37 1994 ; ANSI C's asctime() format
Usage
parse_http_date(x, failure = structure(NA_real_, class = "Date"))http_date(x)
Arguments
- x
For
parse_http_date
, a character vector of strings to parse. All elements must be of the same type.For
http_date
, aPOSIXt
vector.- failure
What to return on failure?
Value
A POSIXct object if succesful, otherwise failure
Examples
# NOT RUN {
parse_http_date("Sun, 06 Nov 1994 08:49:37 GMT")
parse_http_date("Sunday, 06-Nov-94 08:49:37 GMT")
parse_http_date("Sun Nov 6 08:49:37 1994")
http_date(Sys.time())
# }
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