Return a POSIXct timestamp instead of a non-standard locale dependent date

DESCRIPTION

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: osmdata
 Title: Import 'OpenStreetMap' Data as Simple Features or Spatial Objects
-Version: 0.3.0.9025
+Version: 0.3.0.9026
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Joan", "Maspons", , "joanmaspons@gmail.com", role = c("aut", "cre"),
            comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-2286-8727")),

NEWS.md

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 ## Breaking changes
 
 - `getbb()` throws a warning instead of an error for empty results and return the (empty) result with the expected type according to `format_out` parameter (#394).
+- Timestamp in metadata has a POSIXct time. Before it was character with a non-standard locale dependent date format (#416).
 
 ## Major changes
 

R/get-osmdata.R

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ timestamp_fmt_iso8601 <- "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ" # ISO 8601. Z indicates tz = "UTC"
 #'
 #' @param doc OSM XML document. If missing, `Sys.time()` is used.
 #'
-#' @return An R timestamp object
+#' @return A POSIXct timestamp
 #'
 #' @note This defines the timestamp format for \pkg{osmdata} objects, which
 #' includes months as text to ensure umambiguous timestamps
@@ -28,10 +28,7 @@ get_timestamp <- function (doc) {
         tstmp <- Sys.time ()
     }
 
-    ## TODO: avoid a non-standard date string, return a POSIXct value
-    out <- paste ("[", format (tstmp, format = "%a %e %b %Y %T"), "]")
-    out <- gsub ("  ", " ", out) # remove extra space in %e for single digit days
-    out <- gsub ("\\.", "\\\\.", out) # Escape dots
+    tstmp
 }