Library fails to parse time using fromFormat

[RuLeZzz1987]

Settings.defaultLocale = 'es-ES';

DateTime.fromFormat('11:22 am', 'hh:mm a');

returns "the input "11:22 am" can't be parsed as format hh:mm a"
in case of es-ES locale /^(\d{2})(:)(\d{2})(\ )(a\.? m.|p\.? m.)$/i was used and for en-US - /^(\d{2})(:)(\d{2})(\ )(AM|PM)$/i

expected result: DateTime.fromFormat('11:22 am', 'hh:mm a') to be parsed without exceptions

[icambron]

Yes, it looks like the local format for the meridiem is "a. m." or "p. m.":

> DateTime.local().setLocale("es-ES").toFormat("a") //=> 'p. m.'

So that's what Luxon is trying to parse. Luxon makes the dots optional for all tokens but it doesn't make spaces optional, hence the regex. So this is expected behavior.

We could offer a locale-insensitive meridiem token -- that would be a reasonable feature request.

[RuLeZzz1987]

https://codesandbox.io/s/luxon-playground-lnruf?file=/src/index.js

Doesn't work for me with or without dots and spaces

[icambron]

hmm, ok, i'll take a closer look