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EricA
EricA

Reputation: 403

Unusual Time format in date and time column

I have the below date format stored as factors as one of the columns in the Data frame:

2017-02-19T21:10:18.664+00:00
2017-03-10T21:40:50.398+00:00

Sample Data:

head(dataset$local_end_datetime)
[1] 2017-02-19T21:10:18.664+00:00 2017-02-19T21:10:38.418+00:00
[3] 2017-03-10T21:40:50.398+00:00 2017-03-11T16:41:43.339+00:00
[5] 2017-03-10T21:43:31.092+00:00 2017-03-10T21:34:36.065+00:00

I need to split the same for date and time. I can find get the date extracted using below:

dataset$Date <- as.Date(dataset$local_end_datetime)

How can I extract the time from above format? I don't know regular expressions.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 316

Answers (1)

EricA
EricA

Reputation: 403

Library Lubridate is quite powerful when it comes to manipulating dates

dataset$datetime <- lubridate::ymd_hms(dataset$local_end_datetime)
dataset$Local_Date <- as.Date(dataset$datetime)
dataset$Local_Time <- format(dataset$datetime,"%H:%M:%S")

Upvotes: 1

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