Hi, what's wrong with that?
strptime("06:00:00 03.01.2008",format="%H:%M%:%S %d.%m.%Y",tz="GMT")
[1] NA the command seems to comply with the rules in the help file but returns NA (R 2.6.1 Windows XT) Eric Elguero ______________________________________________ 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.