Hi, that is what I tried to show to Stefano. That the issue was only with printing the values on console or as you explained in more depth the default formating when all time values (HMS) are zero.
So that Stefano used correct syntax. Cheers Petr > -----Original Message----- > From: Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> > Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2021 12:05 PM > To: Jim Lemon <drjimle...@gmail.com>; PIKAL Petr > <petr.pi...@precheza.cz> > Cc: r-help mailing list <r-help@r-project.org>; Stefano Sofia > <stefano.so...@regione.marche.it> > Subject: Re: [R] converting to POSIXct > > On 30/11/2021 3:41 a.m., Jim Lemon wrote: > > Hi, > > Petr is right. Apparently as.POSIXct drops the smallest increments if > > all are zero: > > That's not as.POSIXct doing anything: there's no way to drop increments, the > POSIXct format records a number of seconds and that can't be changed. > > What is happening is simply the default formatting. > > Be explicit about the format if you want to see the seconds, e.g. > > > format(ssdf$data_POSIX, format = '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S') [1] "2002-11- > 01 00:00:00" "2002-11-01 00:00:00" > > Duncan Murdoch > > > > > ssdf<-read.csv(text="data_POSIX,Sensor_code,value > > 2002-11-01 00:00:01,1694,7.2 > > 2002-11-01 00:00:00,1723,10.8", > > stringsAsFactors=FALSE) > > ssdf$data_POSIX<-as.POSIXct(ssdf$data_POSIX,"%Y-%m-%d HH:MM:SS") > ssdf > > > > data_POSIX Sensor_code value > > 1 2002-11-01 00:00:01 1694 7.2 > > 2 2002-11-01 00:00:00 1723 10.8 > > > > but if there is a single small increment, they all show up. > > > > Jim > > > > On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 7:33 PM PIKAL Petr <petr.pi...@precheza.cz> > wrote: > >> > >> Hi > >> > >> You probably has zero hours in all your data > >> > >> see > >>> temp > >> data_POSIX Sensor_code value > >> 1 2002-11-01 00:00:00 1694 7.2 > >> 2 2002-11-01 00:00:00 1723 10.8 > >> > >> without hours > >>> as.POSIXct(temp$data_POSIX, format = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S", > >>> tz="Etc/GMT-1") > >> [1] "2002-11-01 +01" "2002-11-01 +01" > >> > >> add value to hours > >>> fix(temp) > >>> temp > >> data_POSIX Sensor_code value > >> 1 2002-11-01 00:01:00 1694 7.2 > >> 2 2002-11-01 00:00:00 1723 10.8 > >> > >> Voila, hours are back. > >>> as.POSIXct(temp$data_POSIX, format = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S", > >>> tz="Etc/GMT-1") > >> [1] "2002-11-01 00:01:00 +01" "2002-11-01 00:00:00 +01" > >> > >> So nothing wrong in uyour code, hours are there but they are probably > not printed to console and hours are there but hidden. > >> > >> Cheers > >> Petr > >> > >>> -----Original Message----- > >>> From: R-help <r-help-boun...@r-project.org> On Behalf Of Stefano > >>> Sofia > >>> Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2021 9:20 AM > >>> To: r-help mailing list <r-help@r-project.org> > >>> Subject: [R] converting to POSIXct > >>> > >>> Dear R-list users, > >>> I thought I was able to manage easily POSIXct, but this is not true. > >>> I am not going to load the input txt file because I know that > >>> attachments are not allowed. The structure of my input txt file is > >>> > >>> data_POSIX,Sensor_code,value > >>> 2002-11-01 00:00:00,1694,7.2 > >>> 2002-11-01 00:00:00,1723,10.8 > >>> ... > >>> > >>> I load it with > >>> myfile <- read.table(file="mypath/myfile.txt", header = TRUE, > >>> sep=",", dec = ".", stringsAsFactors = FALSE) > >>> > >>> When I try to convert the data_POSIX column (which is a character) > >>> to POSIXct with > >>> > >>> myfile$data_POSIX <- as.POSIXct(myfile$data_POSIX, format = > >>> "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S", tz="Etc/GMT-1") > >>> > >>> the outupt is > >>> > >>> 2002-11-01 1694 7.2 > >>> 2002-11-01 1723 10.8 > >>> ... > >>> > >>> Why I keep loosing hours, minutes and seconds? 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