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\alias{as.POSIXct}
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\alias{as.POSIXct}
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\alias{as.POSIXct.default}
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\alias{as.POSIXct.default}
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\alias{as.POSIXct.POSIXlt}
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\alias{as.POSIXct.POSIXlt}
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\alias{as.POSIXct.date}
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\alias{as.POSIXct.date}
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\alias{as.POSIXct.dates}
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\alias{as.POSIXct.dates}
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\alias{as.POSIXct.Date}
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\alias{as.POSIXlt}
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\alias{as.POSIXlt}
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\title{Date-time Conversion Functions}
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\title{Date-time Conversion Functions}
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\description{
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\description{
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  Functions to manipulate objects of classes \code{"POSIXlt"} and
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  Functions to manipulate objects of classes \code{"POSIXlt"} and
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}
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}
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\details{
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\details{
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  The \code{as.POSIX*} functions convert an object to one of the two
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  The \code{as.POSIX*} functions convert an object to one of the two
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  classes used to represent date/times (calendar dates plus time to the
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  classes used to represent date/times (calendar dates plus time to the
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  nearest second).  They can take convert a wide variety of objects,
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  nearest second).  They can take convert a wide variety of objects,
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  including objects of the other class and of classes \code{"date"}
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  including objects of the other class and of classes \code{"Date"},
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  (from package \pkg{\link[date:as.date]{date}} or
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  \code{"date"} (from package \pkg{\link[date:as.date]{date}} or
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  \pkg{\link[survival:as.date]{survival}}), \code{"chron"} and
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  \pkg{\link[survival:as.date]{survival}}), \code{"chron"} and
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  \code{"dates"} (from package \pkg{\link[chron]{chron}}) to these
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  \code{"dates"} (from package \pkg{\link[chron]{chron}}) to these
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  classes.  Dates are treated as being at midnight UTC.
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  classes.  They can also convert character strings of the formats
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  They can also convert character strings of the formats
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  \code{"2001-02-03"} and \code{"2001/02/03"} optionally followed by
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  \code{"2001-02-03"} and \code{"2001/02/03"} optionally followed by
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  white space and a time in the format \code{"14:52"} or
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  white space and a time in the format \code{"14:52"} or
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  \code{"14:52:03"}.  (Formats such as \code{"01/02/03"} are ambiguous
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  \code{"14:52:03"}.  (Formats such as \code{"01/02/03"} are ambiguous
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  but can be converted via a format specification by
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  but can be converted via a format specification by
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  \code{\link{strptime}}.)
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  \code{\link{strptime}}.)