European vs US date formats about anytime

[eddelbuettel]

Please see old issue tickets. This is a duplicate.

[eddelbuettel]

anytime/vignettes/rmd/anytime-intro.Rmd

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	# Ambiguities
	The \pkg{anytime} package is designed to operate heuristically on a number of _plausible_
	and _sane_ formats. This cannot possibly cover all conceivable cases.
	## North America versus the world
	In general, \pkg{anytime} tries to gently nudge users towards ISO 8601 order of _year_
	followed by _month_ and _day_. But for example in the United States, another prevalent
	form insists on month-day-year ordering. As many users are likely to encounter such input
	format, \pkg{anytime} accomodates this use provided a separator is used: input with either
	a slash (`/`) or a hyphen (`-`) is accepted and parsed.

[eddelbuettel]

Also, you format string is plain wrong. %H is for 24 hour clocks. You may have meant %I. But I wouldn't rely on 12h times with am and pm. Use ISO formats with 24 hours if at all possible.

Lastly, you appear to have some hope that the parsing has some metaphysical knowledge of whether

02/03

is March 2nd or February 3rd. It doesn't. First match wins, which is why the encoded preference for US formats along with slashes or hyphes is noted. If you add a European format it will be tried first and matches. That is a feature, not a bug.