What accounts for the different result? > as.numeric(as.POSIXct("2012-01-13 08:10:00") - as.POSIXct("2012-01-13 00:00:00") , units='secs') [1] 29400
> trunc(as.numeric(as.POSIXct("2012-01-13 08:10:00") - as.POSIXct("2012-01-13 00:00:00") , units='secs') ) [1] 29399 [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.