origin {timetools}

1970-01-01 GMT

Description

Origin is the date-time for 1970-01-01 GMT in POSIXct format. This date-time is the origin for the numbering system used by POSIXct, POSIXlt, chron, and Date classes.

Usage

  origin

Format

POSIXt[1:1], format: "1970-01-01 01:00:00"

Details

The original implementation of this 'object' is in the lubridate package.

Author(s)

Garrett Grolemund "grolemund at rice.edu", Hadley Wickham "h.wickham at gmail.com"

Examples

origin
# "1970-01-01 GMT"