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ymd_hms: Parse dates that have hours, minutes, or seconds elements...

Description

Parse dates that have hours, minutes, or seconds elements

Usage

ymd_hms(...)

Arguments

...
a character vector of dates in year, month, day, hour, minute, second format

Value

  • a vector of POSIXct date-time objects

Details

Transforms dates stored as character vectors in year, month, day, hour, minute, second format to POSIXct objects. ymd_hms() type functions recognize all non-alphanumeric separators of length 1 with the exception of ".". ymd_hms() functions automatically assigns the Universal Coordinated Time Zone (UTC) to the parsed date. This time zone can be changed with force_tz.

See Also

ymd, hms

Examples

Run this code
x <- c("2010-04-14-04-35-59", "2010-04-01-12-00-00")
ymd_hms(x)
# [1] "2010-04-14 04:35:59 UTC" "2010-04-01 12:00:00 UTC"
y <- c("2011-12-31 12:59:59", "2010-01-01 12:00:00")
ymd_hms(y)
# [1] "2011-12-31 12:59:59 UTC" "2010-01-01 12:00:00 UTC"}

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