{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/hadley/lubridate/issues/432","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/hadley/lubridate","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/hadley/lubridate/issues/432/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/hadley/lubridate/issues/432/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/hadley/lubridate/issues/432/events","html_url":"https://github.com/hadley/lubridate/issues/432","id":166459315,"number":432,"title":"Removing the \"UTC\"? Question","user":{"login":"skanskan","id":4120283,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4120283?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/skanskan","html_url":"https://github.com/skanskan","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/skanskan/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/skanskan/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/skanskan/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/skanskan/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/skanskan/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/skanskan/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/skanskan/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/skanskan/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/skanskan/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"closed","locked":false,"assignee":null,"assignees":[],"milestone":null,"comments":2,"created_at":"2016-07-19T23:06:03Z","updated_at":"2016-07-20T12:20:11Z","closed_at":"2016-07-20T11:23:24Z","body":"Hello\r\n\r\nIf I run \r\nmdy(\"12/5/1945\")\r\nthe date is shown as:\r\n\"1945-12-05 UTC\"\r\n\r\nHow can I get only  \"1945-12-05\"  without the \"UTC\" part ?\r\nI'm looking for a lubridate option. I don't mean modifying the string posteriori with substr.\r\n\r\nI want to use it with a data.table to quickly convert many columns containing strings to date.\r\n"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/hadley/lubridate/issues/comments/233933039","html_url":"https://github.com/hadley/lubridate/issues/432#issuecomment-233933039","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/hadley/lubridate/issues/432","id":233933039,"user":{"login":"skanskan","id":4120283,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4120283?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/skanskan","html_url":"https://github.com/skanskan","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/skanskan/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/skanskan/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/skanskan/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/skanskan/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/skanskan/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/skanskan/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/skanskan/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/skanskan/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/skanskan/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-07-20T12:20:11Z","updated_at":"2016-07-20T12:20:11Z","body":"OK, thanks.\r\nI've upgraded and now works well.\r\n\r\nAnyway, if I have a big dataframe with many dates stored as characters \"12/5/1945\"...\r\nHow do you suggest to work with it?\r\nTransform them with **as_date** or **fast_strptime** and store them in that new format or just keep them as  text and transform them just when I need to do compute something?"}}
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