handling dates

howdy R friends,

Can anyone help me with converting a 'unix' date (seconds since 1970) into
something readable?

There doesn't seem to be anything in the 'date' package and the prospect of
calculating this myself doesn't excite me.

Well, if you take a date and divide by 60*60*24 you have days since the
zero date. You can then add this to the zero date.  

   date<-mdy.date(1,1,1970)+unixdate/(60*60*24)


	-thomas


Thomas Lumley
Assistant Professor, Biostatistics
University of Washington, Seattle

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