oce (version 1.0-1)

decodeTime: Oce Version of as.POSIXct

Description

Oce Version of as.POSIXct

Usage

decodeTime(time, timeFormats, tz = "UTC")

Arguments

time

Character string with an indication of the time.

timeFormats

Optional vector of time formats to use, as for as.POSIXct.

tz

Time zone.

Value

A time as returned by as.POSIXct.

Details

Each format in timeFormats is used in turn as the format argument to as.POSIXct, and the first that produces a non-NA result is used. If timeFormats is missing, the following formats are tried, in the stated order:

• "%b %d %Y %H:%M:%S" (e.g. "Jul 1 2013 01:02:03")

• "%b %d %Y" (e.g. "Jul 1 2013")

• "%B %d %Y %H:%M:%S" (e.g. "July 1 2013 01:02:03")

• "%B %d %Y" (e.g. "July 1 2013")

• "%d %b %Y %H:%M:%S" (e.g. "1 Jul 2013 01:02:03")

• "%d %b %Y" (e.g. "1 Jul 2013")

• "%d %B %Y %H:%M:%S" (e.g. "1 July 2013 01:02:03")

• "%d %B %Y" (e.g. "1 July 2013")

• "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S" (e.g. "2013-07-01 01:02:03")

• "%Y-%m-%d" (e.g. "2013-07-01")

• "%Y-%b-%d %H:%M:%S" (e.g. "2013-July-01 01:02:03")

• "%Y-%b-%d" (e.g. "2013-Jul-01")

• "%Y-%B-%d %H:%M:%S" (e.g. "2013-July-01 01:02:03")

• "%Y-%B-%d" (e.g. "2013-July-01")

• "%d-%b-%Y %H:%M:%S" (e.g. "01-Jul-2013 01:02:03")

• "%d-%b-%Y" (e.g. "01-Jul-2013")

• "%d-%B-%Y %H:%M:%S" (e.g. "01-July-2013 01:02:03")

• "%d-%B-%Y" (e.g. "01-July-2013")

• "%Y/%b/%d %H:%M:%S" (e.g. "2013/Jul/01 01:02:03")

• "%Y/%b/%d" (e.g. "2013/Jul/01")

• "%Y/%B/%d %H:%M:%S" (e.g. "2013/July/01 01:02:03")

• "%Y/%B/%d" (e.g. "2013/July/01")

• "%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S" (e.g. "2013/07/01 01:02:03")

• "%Y/%m/%d" (e.g. "2013/07/01")

See Also

Other functions relating to time: GMTOffsetFromTz

Examples

# NOT RUN {
decodeTime("July 1 2013 01:02:03")
decodeTime("Jul 1 2013 01:02:03")
decodeTime("1 July 2013 01:02:03")
decodeTime("1 Jul 2013 01:02:03")
decodeTime("2013-07-01 01:02:03")
decodeTime("2013/07/01 01:02:03")
decodeTime("2013/07/01")
# }