convert "Wed Feb 12 22:29:36 +0000 2020" into date format

[StevenUA]

In my dataset, time is indicated by "Wed Feb 12 22:29:36 +0000 2020", which isn't recognised by ggplot. I want to make a graph with date on the x-as. How can I convert the time in my dataset in a normal data-format? I got a million observations, so changing them one by one is not an option! I tried working with the libridate packate, but it doesn't seem able to help me.

[Yarnabrina]

This is a bit unusual timestamp, but still readily parsable.

Here I used base R only, but should not be a problem with lubridate. You have to use as_date or as_datetime, and it will return UTC time by default. What problem did you face?

# as date object
as.Date(x = "Wed Feb 12 22:29:36 +0000 2020", format = "%a %B %d %H:%M:%S %z %Y")
#> [1] "2020-02-12"

# as date-time object
as.POSIXct(x = "Wed Feb 12 22:29:36 +0000 2020", format = "%a %B %d %H:%M:%S %z %Y")
#> [1] "2020-02-13 03:59:36 IST"

^{Created on 2020-02-26 by the reprex package (v0.3.0)}