oce (version 1.8-3)

ctimeToSeconds: Interpret a Character String as a Time Interval

Description

Infer a time interval from a character string in the form MM:SS or HH:MM:SS.

Usage

ctimeToSeconds(ctime)

Value

A numeric value, the number of seconds represented by the string.

Arguments

ctime

a character string (see “Details”.

Author

Dan Kelley

See Also

See secondsToCtime(), the inverse of this.

Other things related to time: julianCenturyAnomaly(), julianDay(), numberAsHMS(), numberAsPOSIXct(), secondsToCtime(), unabbreviateYear()

Examples

library(oce)
cat("10      = ", ctimeToSeconds("10"), "s\n", sep = "")
cat("01:04   = ", ctimeToSeconds("01:04"), "s\n", sep = "")
cat("1:00:00 = ", ctimeToSeconds("1:00:00"), "s\n", sep = "")