# R: Difference of two 'timeDate' Objects

difftimeDate {timeDate} | R Documentation

## Difference of two 'timeDate' Objects

### Description

Returns a difference of two 'timeDate' objects.

### Usage

    difftimeDate(time1, time2,
        units = c("auto", "secs", "mins", "hours", "days", "weeks"))

### Arguments

`time1, time2` | two objects objects of class `timeDate`.
`units` | a character string denoting the date/time units in which the results are desired.

### Value

The function, `difftimeDate`, takes a difference of two `timeDate` objects and returns an object of class `"difftime"` with an attribute indicating the units.

### Examples

    ## Create Character Vectors:
       dts = c("1989-09-28", "2001-01-15", "2004-08-30", "1990-02-09")
       dts

    ## timeDate -
       GMT = timeDate(dts, zone = "GMT", FinCenter = "GMT")
       GMT

    ## diff -
       # Suitably Lagged and Iterated Differences:
       difftimeDate(GMT[1:2], GMT[-(1:2)])

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