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R function: ISOdatetime

ISOdatetime (as also ISOdate) is a wrapper for strptime.

The function returns a POSIXct object.

dt <- ISOdatetime(2016, 08, 28, 13, 57, 38, "UTC")
class(dt)
# [1] "POSIXct" "POSIXt"

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