toLongDate function

Converts short (old) 'z-Tree' dates into long (new) 'z-Tree' dates.

Old versions of 'z-Tree' stored dates as, e.g. 050613JN (the first six being year-month-date, the last two characters are the time). Newer versions use strings like 091112_1600 (time is now in the last four characters). This function converts the old format into the new format

toLongDate(shortDate)

Arguments

• shortDate: This should be a vector of strings, each of length 8 characters. The first six characters of each element of shortDate are year, month, date. The last two chacters encode the time of the experiment.

Returns

A vector of the same length as shortDate. The first six characters of each element are unchanged. The last five characters are now the time translated.

References

Urs Fischbacher. "z-Tree Manual 2.1 Experimenter's Manual". Zurich. 2002.

Author(s)

Oliver Kirchkamp

Examples

toLongDate("091112JN")