There are many epochs. Which one are you interested in? If you are interested in the POSIX time_t epoch, then you could look at ?DateTimeClasses to find out about ?as.POSIXct. You might also find my email on inputting zones informative [1].
Also, per the Posting Guide, please don't post in html format... it messes up your R code. [1] https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2013-August/357939.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... DCN:<jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. vivek kumar singh <vksingh.ii...@gmail.com> wrote: >Hi All, > >I have time series data in (Year-month-date-hour-minute-second) format >and i want to convert it to epoch time. > >I have tried the following: >*> Sys.time()** >**[1] "2013-11-17 10:39:46 MYT"** >**> as.numeric(Sys.time())** >**[1] 1384656006** >**> as.numeric("2013-11-17 10:39:46 MYT")** >**[1] NA** >**Warning message:** >**NAs introduced by coercion ** >**> as.numeric("2013-11-17 10:39:46 MYT")** >**[1] NA** >**Warning message:** >**NAs introduced by coercion ** >* >Please let me know which function in R converts date-time to epoch >time. > >Regards, >Vivek > > [[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. ______________________________________________ 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.
