Thanks guys. The first solution with the gsub / lapply works perfectly. The solution using substrings would work if the times were in a consistent format, but without the leading zeros and with some parts of the string absent completely it would need some extra logic to apply. I need something to automate over a data set with a million or so time points in it.
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