timeDate (version 4041.110)

midnightStandard: Midnight standard

Description

Corrects "timeDate" objects if they do not fulfill the ISO8601 midnight standard.

midnightStandard2() relies on strptime wherever possible, and there simply returns as.POSIXct(strptime(charvec, format, tz = "GMT")).

Usage

midnightStandard (charvec, format)
midnightStandard2(charvec, format)

Value

midnightStandard returns a character and

midnightStandard2 a POSIXct object.

Arguments

charvec

a character string or vector of dates and times.

format

a string, the format specification of the input character vector.

Examples

ch <- "2007-12-31 24:00"
midnightStandard(ch)
(ms2 <- midnightStandard2(ch))
class(ms2)