ymd_hms

From lubridate v1.1.0 by Garrett Grolemund

Parse dates that have hours, minutes, or seconds elements

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. ymdThms() specifically handles combined dates and times written in the ISO 8601 format.

Keywords: parse, POSIXt

Usage

ymd_hms(..., quiet = FALSE, tz = "UTC")

Arguments

...: a character vector of dates in year, month, day, hour, minute, second format
quiet: logical. When TRUE function evalueates without displaying customary messages.
tz: a character string that specifies which time zone to parse the date with. The string must be a time zone that is recognized by the user's OS.

Value

a vector of POSIXct date-time objects

Examples

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"

Documentation reproduced from package lubridate, version 1.1.0, License: GPL

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