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\name{ymd_hms}
\alias{ymd_hms}
\alias{ymd_hm}
\alias{ymd_h}
\alias{dmy_hms}
\alias{dmy_hm}
\alias{dmy_h}
\alias{mdy_hms}
\alias{mdy_hm}
\alias{mdy_h}
\alias{ydm_hms}
\alias{ydm_hm}
\alias{ydm_h}
\title{Parse date-times with \strong{y}ear, \strong{m}onth, and \strong{d}ay, \strong{h}our,
\strong{m}inute, and \strong{s}econd components.}
\usage{
ymd_hms(
  ...,
  quiet = FALSE,
  tz = "UTC",
  locale = Sys.getlocale("LC_TIME"),
  truncated = 0
)

ymd_hm(
  ...,
  quiet = FALSE,
  tz = "UTC",
  locale = Sys.getlocale("LC_TIME"),
  truncated = 0
)

ymd_h(
  ...,
  quiet = FALSE,
  tz = "UTC",
  locale = Sys.getlocale("LC_TIME"),
  truncated = 0
)

dmy_hms(
  ...,
  quiet = FALSE,
  tz = "UTC",
  locale = Sys.getlocale("LC_TIME"),
  truncated = 0
)

dmy_hm(
  ...,
  quiet = FALSE,
  tz = "UTC",
  locale = Sys.getlocale("LC_TIME"),
  truncated = 0
)

dmy_h(
  ...,
  quiet = FALSE,
  tz = "UTC",
  locale = Sys.getlocale("LC_TIME"),
  truncated = 0
)

mdy_hms(
  ...,
  quiet = FALSE,
  tz = "UTC",
  locale = Sys.getlocale("LC_TIME"),
  truncated = 0
)

mdy_hm(
  ...,
  quiet = FALSE,
  tz = "UTC",
  locale = Sys.getlocale("LC_TIME"),
  truncated = 0
)

mdy_h(
  ...,
  quiet = FALSE,
  tz = "UTC",
  locale = Sys.getlocale("LC_TIME"),
  truncated = 0
)

ydm_hms(
  ...,
  quiet = FALSE,
  tz = "UTC",
  locale = Sys.getlocale("LC_TIME"),
  truncated = 0
)

ydm_hm(
  ...,
  quiet = FALSE,
  tz = "UTC",
  locale = Sys.getlocale("LC_TIME"),
  truncated = 0
)

ydm_h(
  ...,
  quiet = FALSE,
  tz = "UTC",
  locale = Sys.getlocale("LC_TIME"),
  truncated = 0
)
}
\arguments{
\item{...}{a character vector of dates in year, month, day, hour, minute,
second format}

\item{quiet}{logical. If \code{TRUE}, function evaluates without displaying customary messages.}

\item{tz}{a character string that specifies which time zone to parse the date with. The string
must be a time zone that is recognized by the user's OS.}

\item{locale}{locale to be used, see \link{locales}. On Linux systems you
can use \code{system("locale -a")} to list all the installed locales.}

\item{truncated}{integer, indicating how many formats can be missing. See details.}
}
\value{
a vector of \link{POSIXct} date-time objects
}
\description{
Transform dates stored as character or numeric vectors to POSIXct
objects. The \code{ymd_hms()} family of functions recognizes all non-alphanumeric
separators (with the exception of "." if \code{frac = TRUE}) and correctly
handles heterogeneous date-time representations. For more flexibility in
treatment of heterogeneous formats, see low level parser
\code{\link[=parse_date_time]{parse_date_time()}}.
}
\details{
The \code{ymd_hms()} functions automatically assign the Universal Coordinated Time
Zone (UTC) to the parsed date. This time zone can be changed with
\code{\link[=force_tz]{force_tz()}}.

The most common type of irregularity in date-time data is the truncation
due to rounding or unavailability of the time stamp. If the \code{truncated}
parameter is non-zero, the \code{ymd_hms()} functions also check for truncated
formats. For example, \code{ymd_hms()} with \code{truncated = 3} will also parse
incomplete dates like \verb{2012-06-01 12:23}, \verb{2012-06-01 12} and
\code{2012-06-01}. NOTE: The \code{ymd()} family of functions is based on
\code{\link[base:strptime]{base::strptime()}} which currently fails to parse \verb{\%y-\%m} formats.

In case of heterogeneous date formats the \code{ymd_hms()} family guesses formats
based on a subset of the input vector. If the input vector contains many
missing values or non-date strings, the subset might not contain meaningful
dates and the date-time format won't be guessed resulting in
\verb{All formats failed to parse} error. In such cases please see
\code{\link[=parse_date_time]{parse_date_time()}} for a more flexible parsing interface.

As of version 1.3.0, \pkg{lubridate}'s parse functions no longer return a
message that displays which format they used to parse their input. You can
change this by setting the \code{lubridate.verbose} option to \code{TRUE} with
\code{options(lubridate.verbose = TRUE)}.
}
\examples{

x <- c("2010-04-14-04-35-59", "2010-04-01-12-00-00")
ymd_hms(x)
x <- c("2011-12-31 12:59:59", "2010-01-01 12:00:00")
ymd_hms(x)


## ** heterogeneous formats **
x <- c(20100101120101, "2009-01-02 12-01-02", "2009.01.03 12:01:03",
       "2009-1-4 12-1-4",
       "2009-1, 5 12:1, 5",
       "200901-08 1201-08",
       "2009 arbitrary 1 non-decimal 6 chars 12 in between 1 !!! 6",
       "OR collapsed formats: 20090107 120107 (as long as prefixed with zeros)",
       "Automatic wday, Thu, detection, 10-01-10 10:01:10 and p format: AM",
       "Created on 10-01-11 at 10:01:11 PM")
ymd_hms(x)

## ** fractional seconds **
op <- options(digits.secs=3)
dmy_hms("20/2/06 11:16:16.683")
options(op)

## ** different formats for ISO8601 timezone offset **
ymd_hms(c("2013-01-24 19:39:07.880-0600",
"2013-01-24 19:39:07.880", "2013-01-24 19:39:07.880-06:00",
"2013-01-24 19:39:07.880-06", "2013-01-24 19:39:07.880Z"))

## ** internationalization **
\dontrun{
x_RO <- "Ma 2012 august 14 11:28:30 "
  ymd_hms(x_RO, locale = "ro_RO.utf8")
}

## ** truncated time-dates **
x <- c("2011-12-31 12:59:59", "2010-01-01 12:11", "2010-01-01 12", "2010-01-01")
ymd_hms(x, truncated = 3)
x <- c("2011-12-31 12:59", "2010-01-01 12", "2010-01-01")
ymd_hm(x, truncated = 2)
## ** What lubridate might not handle **
## Extremely weird cases when one of the separators is "" and some of the
## formats are not in double digits might not be parsed correctly:
\dontrun{
ymd_hm("20100201 07-01", "20100201 07-1", "20100201 7-01")}

}
\seealso{
\itemize{
\item \code{\link[=ymd]{ymd()}}, \code{\link[=hms]{hms()}}
\item \code{\link[=parse_date_time]{parse_date_time()}} for the underlying mechanism
}
}
\keyword{POSIXt}
\keyword{parse}
