Difference of two 'timeDate' objects — difftimeDate • timeDate

Returns the difference of two 'timeDate' objects.

difftimeDate(time1, time2, 
    units = c("auto", "secs", "mins", "hours", "days", "weeks"))

Arguments

time1, time2: two objects of class "timeDate".
units: a character string denoting the date/time units in which the results are desired.

Details

difftimeDate is analogous to base::difftime for "timeDate" arguments.

difftimeDate takes a difference of two "timeDate" objects and returns an object of class "difftime" with an attribute indicating the units.

Value

an object of class "difftime" with an attribute indicating the units

See also

diff.timeDate for differencing a "timeDate" object.

Examples

dts <- c("1989-09-28", "2001-01-15", "2004-08-30", "1990-02-09")
GMT <- timeDate(dts, zone = "GMT", FinCenter = "GMT") 
GMT
#> GMT
#> [1] [1989-09-28] [2001-01-15] [2004-08-30] [1990-02-09]

difftimeDate(GMT[1:2], GMT[-(1:2)])  
#> Time differences in days
#> [1] -5450  3993