On 27-01-2012, at 21:45, Ty Canuck wrote:

> 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

See R FAQ 7.31

And try this

d1 <- as.numeric(as.POSIXct("2012-01-13 08:10:00") - as.POSIXct("2012-01-13 
00:00:00") , units='secs')
d2 <- trunc(as.numeric(as.POSIXct("2012-01-13 08:10:00") - 
as.POSIXct("2012-01-13 00:00:00") , units='secs') )

sprintf("%.12f",d1)

Berend

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