convertPgDate: Convert Pamguard Numeric Date to POSIXct
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convertPgDate

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Convert Pamguard Numeric Date to POSIXct

Description

a simple helper to convert Pamguard's numeric date to POSIXct format

Usage

convertPgDate(dateNum)

Arguments

dateNum

date as a numeric, seconds since 1970-01-01 per standard Pamguard output. Timezone is UTC

Value

A POSIXct date in UTC

Author(s)

Taiki Sakai taiki.sakai@noaa.gov

Examples


# load the example click binary data, leaving date as numeric
clickFile <- system.file('extdata', 'Click.pgdf', package='PamBinaries')
clickData <- loadPamguardBinaryFile(clickFile, convertDate = FALSE)
# convert date to POSIXct
convertPgDate(clickData$data[[1]]$date)

PamBinaries documentation built on Feb. 16, 2023, 7:38 p.m.