Based on the trick that often dates are repeated in a column, we make date transformation
faster by computing date transformation only on uniques.
Usage
as.POSIXct_fast(x, ...)
Value
as.POSIXct and as.POSIXlt return an object of the appropriate class. If tz was specified,
as.POSIXlt will give an appropriate "tzone" attribute. Date-times known to be invalid will be returned as NA.