See: ?DateTimeClasses ?as.POSIXct ?strptime ?difftime
The example for difftime should help: (z <- Sys.time() - 3600) Sys.time() - z # just over 3600 seconds. ## time interval between releases of 1.2.2 and 1.2.3. ISOdate(2001, 4, 26) - ISOdate(2001, 2, 26) as.difftime(c("0:3:20", "11:23:15")) as.difftime(c("3:20", "23:15", "2:"), format= "%H:%M")# 3rd gives NA HTH, Andy ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help