R help - Mar 2001 - Date format

Hi,

I try to convert a string into date format.
Please see the following two examples. When the 
time is midnight (i.e. 00:00:00), R can't convert 
it correctly and get a value of "NA". How to make 
it work and get the value of "2001-03-23 00:00:00"?
Thanks!!

=Example 1====================================
> S <- 20010323120000
> sTime <- strptime(paste(S), format="%Y%m%d%H%M%S")
> sTime
[1] "2001-03-23 12:00:00"


=Example 2====================================
> T <- 20010323000000
> tTime <- strptime(paste(T), format="%Y%m%d%H%M%S")
> tTime
[1] "NA"


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On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Yu-Ling Wu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I try to convert a string into date format.
> Please see the following two examples. When the
> time is midnight (i.e. 00:00:00), R can't convert
> it correctly and get a value of "NA". How to make
> it work and get the value of "2001-03-23 00:00:00"?
That's not a valid time, so you can't.  (OS-specific, possibly, as it
depends on the underlying OS features, but true on Solaris and Linux.)

You can set a POSIXlt structure directly, of course.

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