`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
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