That is a good tip. I have tried it and found that it works if I make
sure it was converted to character first. strptime appears to accept
factor variables which is the default when reading in the file originally.
Thanks
Steve
On 3/29/2012 2:31 PM, MacQueen, Don wrote:
I also find that POSIXct is generally the most useful, and only use
POSIXlt in special cases.
But have you considered as.POSIXct() instead of strptime()? It works for
me, and I can't remember the last time I had to use strptime() for
converting character to date/time. (But I mostly don't work with multiple
time zones, except for converting to/from UTC.
-Don
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