[R] Weird Excel Time Format

[Prof Brian Ripley]

If all else fails, read the help page.  There are examples on 
?as.Date of reading Excel dates.

But I don't believe the time you give. (0.577662037 is just before 
13:51:50).

On Tue, 29 Nov 2011, Hasan Diwan wrote:

> I have a 10-column XLS file, with 2 date fields. As far as I can tell,
> they were configured identically in Excel 2010. One of these fields
> resembles "39406.577662037", whilst in Excel, it is shown as
> "2007-11-20 13:42:20". Applying as.Date() with the default format
> doesn't do it. Any ideas as to what format this is? Many thanks! -- H

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