Parsing Date and Time in R Programming – strptime() Function
Last Updated :
02 Mar, 2021
strptime() function in R Language is used to parse the given representation of date and time with the given template.
Syntax: strptime(x, format, tz = “”)
Parameters:
x: given representation of date and time
y: given template in which parsing is done
tz: a character string specifying the time zone to be used for the conversion
Example 1:
Python3
x <- "13:15:17"
y <- strptime(x, "% H:% M:% S")
y
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Output:
[1] "2020-06-17 13:15:17 UTC"
Example 2:
Python3
x <- "10-02-2020 05:05:06 AM"
y <- strptime(x, "% d-% m-% Y % I:% M:% S", "GMT")
y
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Output:
[1] "2020-02-10 05:05:06 GMT"
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