Parse timestamp with a.m./p.m

Question

I have a file that formats time stamps like 25/03/2011 9:15:00 p.m.

How can I parse this text to a Date-Time class with either strptime or as.POSIXct?

Answer 1

Just came across this, as another option you can use stringr package.

library(stringr)
data$date2 <- str_sub(data$date, end = -4) 
# this removes the punctuation but holds onto the A/P values
data$date2 <- str_c(data$date2, 'm') 
# adds the required m