Change date time to epoch time
On Nov 16, 2013, at 8:46 PM, vivek kumar singh wrote:
Hi All, I have time series data in (Year-month-date-hour-minute-second) format and i want to convert it to epoch time. I have tried the following: *> Sys.time()** **[1] "2013-11-17 10:39:46 MYT"** **> as.numeric(Sys.time())** **[1] 1384656006**
Should we assume this is "epoch time"?
**> as.numeric("2013-11-17 10:39:46 MYT")**
**[1] NA**
**Warning message:**
**NAs introduced by coercion **
**> as.numeric("2013-11-17 10:39:46 MYT")**
**[1] NA**
If it is then this is close:
as.numeric(as.POSIXct("2013-11-17 10:39:46 MYT"))
(You may need to supply an appropriate TZ offset in seconds
?POSIXct
--
David.
**Warning message:** **NAs introduced by coercion ** * Please let me know which function in R converts date-time to epoch time. Regards, Vivek [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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