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Why does the Date below change to "2014-07-07" when converted to POSIXct?
Sys.setenv(TZ='America/Sao_Paulo')
d <- as.Date("2014-07-08", format="%Y-%m-%d")
d
[1] "2014-07-08"
as.POSIXct(d)
[1] "2014-07-07 21:00:00 BRT"
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POSIXct stores date and time in seconds with the number of seconds beginning at 1 January 1970. Negative numbers are used to store dates prior to 1970. Thus, the POSIXct format stores each date and time a single value in units of seconds. Storing the data this way, optimizes use in data.
To format = , provide a character string (in quotes) that represents the current date format using the special “strptime” abbreviations below. For example, if your character dates are currently in the format “DD/MM/YYYY”, like “24/04/1968”, then you would use format = "%d/%m/%Y" to convert the values into dates.
You can use the as. Date( ) function to convert character data to dates. The format is as. Date(x, "format"), where x is the character data and format gives the appropriate format.
To get the year from a date in R you can use the functions as. POSIXct() and format() . For example, here's how to extract the year from a date: 1) date <- as. POSIXct("02/03/2014 10:41:00", format = "%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S) , and 2) format(date, format="%Y") .
Because as.POSIXct.Date doesn't look for a timezone (and won't pass it to .POSIXct if you specify it in ...) and Date objects are "UTC", so your POSIXct is offset from the UTC of the Date object.
It would be better to call as.POSIXct on the character string directly, if you can:
> as.POSIXct("2014-07-08", format="%Y-%m-%d")
[1] "2014-07-08 BRT"
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