Hi Stefano,
As the help page says:
"The default for the format methods is "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S" if any
element has a time component which is not midnight, and "%Y-%m-%d"
otherwise. This is because when the result is printed, it uses the
default format. If you want a specified output representation:
format(strptime(init_day, format="%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M"),"%Y-%M-%d %H:%M")
[1] "2015-30-24 00:30"
For the "midnight" case:
format(strptime(init_day, format="%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M"),"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M")
[1] "2015-02-24 00:00"
Jim
On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 5:22 PM, Stefano Sofia
<stefano.so...@regione.marche.it> wrote:
> Dear R-list users,
> I need to use strptime because I have to deal with date with hours and
> minutes.
> I read the manual for strptime and I also looked at many examples, but when I
> try to apply it to my code, I always encounter some problems.
> I try to change the default format, with no success. Why? How can I change
> the format?
>
> 1.
> init_day <- as.factor("2015-02-24-00-30")
> strptime(init_day, format="%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M")
> [1] "2015-02-24 00:30:00"
> It works, but why also seconds are shown if in format seconds are not
> specified?
>
> 2.
> init_day <- as.factor("2015-02-24-0-00")
> strptime(init_day, format="%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M")
> [1] "2015-02-24"
> Again, the specified format is not applied. Why?
>
> Thank you for your attention and your help
> Stefano
>
>
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