> From: Peter Dalgaard BSA <p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk>
> Date: 23 Jan 2001 14:24:38 +0100
>
[...]
> Just to complete the discussion on date parsing,
>
> unclass(as.POSIXct(strptime(date(),"%c")))
>
> or
>
> as.POSIXct(strptime(date(),"%c")) -
structure(0,class="POSIXct")
>
> gives the time in seconds since the beginning of time() (generally Jan
> 1 1970 0:00:00 GMT on Unixen).
It is easier to use unclass(Sys.time()), which gives this directly.
The base is always `the epoch'', as given by Peter. Unless your clock
is set wrong (possible) that should be the correct value, the problem
being the conversions done in printing it.
> However, I think proc.time()[3] is more relevant for your needs.
It is higher accuracy too (ca 0.01 secs).
--
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