dectime2Date function

Date Conversion

Convert time data expressed as year and fractional part of year to class "Date."

dectime2Date(x, Date.noon = TRUE)

Arguments

• x: the decimal date to convert.
• Date.noon: correct from noon correction for dectime.

Returns

A vector of class "Date" corresponding to each value in x.

Details

Added from smwrBase.

Note

A small value, representing about 1 minute, is added to each value in x

to prevent truncation errors in the conversion. This can cause some errors if the data were converted from date and time data.

Examples

dectime("02/07/2013", date.format="%m/%d/%Y")
# Convert back the printed result:
dectime2Date(2013.103)

See Also

dectime, as.Date