`anytime` was written for this:
> anytime::anytime("2020-09-17_00:00:00") [1] "2020-09-17 CDT" > class(anytime::anytime("2020-09-17_00:00:00")) [1] "POSIXct" "POSIXt" > Dirk -- dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.