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Problem with fractional seconds

4 messages · Tim Clark, Gabor Grothendieck, Seeliger.Curt at epamail.epa.gov

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Dear List,

I am having problems converting a file with fractional seconds to class POSIXct.  I have set my options to include digits.secs and my format to just time, but my output is the current date with my time lacking the fractions of a second.  For example:

options(digits.secs=3)  
t<-c("06:00:00.100","06:00:01.231")
myt<-as.POSIXct(t,format="%H:%M:%S")
myt

[1] "2009-05-26 06:00:00 HST" "2009-05-26 06:00:01 HST"

I would like the output to be just time with fractional seconds. I.e.

06:00:00.100,06:00:01.231

I have also tried Chron times() which did not work either.  Interestingly, Sys.time() does produce fractional seconds, so I know the options are working.

I would appreciate your help and suggestions.

Aloha,

Tim





Tim Clark
Department of Zoology 
University of Hawaii
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Try this:
[1] "2009-05-26 06:00:00.100 EDT" "2009-05-26 06:00:00.231 EDT"
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Tim Clark <mudiver1200 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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Its in the second paragraph after the list of % codes.
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 6:11 PM, <Seeliger.Curt at epamail.epa.gov> wrote: