Because a Date object represents calendar dates, and calendar dates don't have hours.
Use as.POSIXct() instead of as.Date() (and spend a little more time with the documentation for as.Date) -Don -- Don MacQueen Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 7000 East Ave., L-627 Livermore, CA 94550 925-423-1062 On 2/6/14 10:24 AM, "jcrosbie" <ja...@crosb.ie> wrote: >Why am I know getting hours after I convert the date? > > dates <- c('31/12/2013 0:00', '31/12/2013 1:00', '31/12/2013 2:00', >'31/12/2013 3:00', '31/12/2013 4:00', '31/12/2013 5:00', '31/12/2013 >6:00', '31/12/2013 7:00', '31/12/2013 8:00', '31/12/2013 9:00', >'31/12/2013 10:00', '31/12/2013 11:00', '31/12/2013 12:00', '31/12/2013 >13:00', '31/12/2013 14:00', '31/12/2013 15:00', '31/12/2013 16:00', >'31/12/2013 17:00', '31/12/2013 18:00', '31/12/2013 19:00', '31/12/2013 >20:00', '31/12/2013 21:00', '31/12/2013 22:00', '31/12/2013 23:00', >'01/01/2014 0:00') > >as.Date(dates, format="%d/%m/%Y %H:%M") > [1] "2013-12-31" "2013-12-31" "2013-12-31" "2013-12-31" "2013-12-31" > [6] "2013-12-31" "2013-12-31" "2013-12-31" "2013-12-31" "2013-12-31" >[11] "2013-12-31" "2013-12-31" "2013-12-31" "2013-12-31" "2013-12-31" >[16] "2013-12-31" "2013-12-31" "2013-12-31" "2013-12-31" "2013-12-31" >[21] "2013-12-31" "2013-12-31" "2013-12-31" "2013-12-31" "2014-01-01" > > > > > >-- >View this message in context: >http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/why-is-as-date-function-not-working-for-me-d >d-mm-yyyy-h-mm-tp4684874.html >Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >______________________________________________ >R-help@r-project.org mailing list >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >PLEASE do read the posting guide >http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.