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"POSIXct" is the thing tripping off the tongue in this sentence, not base R.
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stevenprimeaux authored Mar 13, 2024
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Expand Up @@ -55,7 55,7 @@ There are three types of date/time data that refer to an instant in time:

- A **date-time** is a date plus a time: it uniquely identifies an instant in time (typically to the nearest second).
Tibbles print this as `<dttm>`.
Base R calls these POSIXct, but doesn't exactly trip off the tongue.
Base R calls these POSIXct, but that doesn't exactly trip off the tongue.

In this chapter we are going to focus on dates and date-times as R doesn't have a native class for storing times.
If you need one, you can use the **hms** package.
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