dectime2Date: Date Conversion

In USGS-R/smwrBase: Functions to import and manipulate hydrologic data

Date Conversion

Description

Convert time data expressed as year and fractional part of year to class "Date."

Usage

dectime2Date(x, Date.noon = TRUE)

Arguments

x	the decimal date to convert.
Date.noon	correct from noon correction for dectime.

Value

A vector of class "Date" corresponding to each value in x.

Note

A small value, representing about 1 minute, is added to each value in x to prevent truncation errors in the conversion. This can cause some errors if the data were converted from date and time data.

See Also

dectime, as.Date

Examples

dectime("02/07/2013", date.format="%m/%d/%Y")
# Convert back the printed result:
dectime2Date(2013.103)

USGS-R/smwrBase documentation built on Oct. 18, 2022, 9:55 a.m.