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Issue due to locale-specific translation of character strings with strptime #201

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odeleongt opened this issue Sep 13, 2014 · 2 comments · May be fixed by #202 or swirldev/swirl_courses#45
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Issue due to locale-specific translation of character strings with strptime #201

odeleongt opened this issue Sep 13, 2014 · 2 comments · May be fixed by #202 or swirldev/swirl_courses#45
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@odeleongt
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As reported in thread 138 of the Coursera/rprog-007 discussion forums, strptime translates character strings according to the locale:

# In an English locale the following returns NA, but in a Spanish locale it works:
strptime("Octubre 17, 1986", "%B %d, %Y")

# In a Spanish locale the following returns NA, but in an English locale it works:
strptime("October 17, 1986", "%B %d, %Y")
This was referenced Sep 13, 2014
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Thanks @odeleongt. This is also an issue in our lubridate lesson. I agree it's worth implementing a flexible solution, similar to what you've presented #202.

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reitzig commented Feb 1, 2016

Seconded. This makes lessons with dates and times quite weird.

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