Le 01/04/2022 à 08:40, Jeff Newmiller a écrit :
> Both R and Excel assume a date is associated with every time object. In 
> Excel, when you show a date it is an integer number of days since 1899-12-31 
> (due to a mistake made early in programming it). Whenever you show a time, it 
> it merely displaying the time portion (fraction of a day) of a date/time. The 
> date part of that value may or may not be 1899-12-31.
>
> With this in mind, you are tilting at windmills hoping to import a "pure 
> time" because no such thing exists in either program. You can choose to 
> render a `POSIXct` as showing only the time portion when you convert it to 
> character if you so choose.

Thanks for the infos. Yes, this is exactly what  I did yesterday with 
POSIXct > POSIXlt to go ahead. However I wanted to understand fully what 
happened, hence the call to the list. Jeff and Andrew, now eveything is 
clear to me thanks to you...


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