stringToPosix: Convert a Time String to a POSIXct Object

In KWB-R/kwb.datetime: Functions for date/time objects

Description

Convert a time string to a POSIXct object. Allow for different possible timestamp formats.

Usage

stringToPosix(
  x,
  formats = c("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S", "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M", "%Y-%m-%d"),
  ...
)

Arguments

x	character vector of length one representing a timestamp
formats	vector of allowed time formats (using %-placeholders)
...	arguments passed to hsToPosix

Examples

stringToPosix("2016-05-26")
stringToPosix("2016-05-26 12:00")
  
# additional arguments passed to hsToPosix
stringToPosix("2016-05-26 12:00:33", tzone = "ETC/Gmt-1")
  
# lt = TRUE -> create POSIXlt instead of POSIXct
lt1 <- stringToPosix("2016-05-26 17:00", lt = TRUE)
lt2 <- stringToPosix("2016-05-26 17:00", lt = TRUE, tz = "Europe/Berlin")
  
lt1$hour
lt1$isdst # normal time (is daylight saving time = FALSE)
lt2$isdst # summer time (is daylight saving time = TRUE)

KWB-R/kwb.datetime documentation built on July 9, 2021, 10:28 p.m.