R help - Jul 2012 - Format Date with Time

How do I format "5/1/2012 8:00:00 PM" into a date?


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?Date
?POSIXct

and here you can find the formatting symbols:
http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-patched/library/base/html/strptime.html


On 16.07.2012, at 15:26, Lauren Vogric wrote:
> How do I format "5/1/2012 8:00:00 PM" into a date?
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> as.POSIXct("5/1/2012 8:00:00 PM", format = "%m/%d/%Y
%I:%M:%S %p")
[1] "2012-05-01 20:00:00 EDT"


On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 9:26 AM, Lauren Vogric
<lvogric at grahamcapital.com> wrote:
> How do I format "5/1/2012 8:00:00 PM" into a date?
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