Feature request: OS agnostic specification of locale when formatting

[eaurele]

When formatting a date, one has to use a platform specific locale, e.g.:

library(lubridate)

D <- ymd("2020-07-01") 

# Windows
stamp("01-janvier-1900", orders = "%d-%B-%Y", locale = "French_France.1252")(D)

# Linux
stamp("01-janvier-1900", orders = "%d-%B-%Y", locale = "fr_FR.UTF-8")(D)

{readr} has this very nice feature where the locale can be specified independently of the OS:

readr::parse_date("01-janvier-1900", format = "%d-%B-%Y", locale = readr::locale("fr"))

Desired interface

A similar specification of the locale with a platform independent function would be very nice:

stamp("01-janvier-1900", orders = "%d-%B-%Y", locale = locale("fr"))(D)

[DavisVaughan]

clock takes the same approach as readr by providing OS independent locale specification when formatting and parsing:

library(clock)

x <- date_parse("2020-07-01") 

date_format(x, format = "%d-%B-%Y", locale = clock_locale("fr"))
#> [1] "01-juillet-2020"

^{Created on 2021-05-25 by the reprex package (v1.0.0)}