Generate a sample of random datetimes — pct

Generates random datetimes that are, elementwise, between start and end

pct_orig

secs_per_year

secs_per_day

rand_posixct(
  start,
  end,
  max_duration_secs = NULL,
  multiplier = if (is(start, "Date")) secs_per_day else 1,
  n = max(length(start), length(end))
)

Arguments

start	POSIXct or Date. Earliest possible datetime for thte sample
end	POSIXct or Date. latest possible datetime for thte sample
max_duration_secs	numeric. Number of seconds to use to generate alernate end if `end` has a missing value.
multiplier	numeric. Used internally.
n	numeric. Length of sample. Default to max of `length(start)` and `length(end)`.

Format

An object of class character of length 1.

An object of class numeric of length 1.

Value

A POSIXct vector of datetimes.

Examples

rand_posixct("2020-01-01", "2021-01-01", n = 2)
#> [1] "2020-01-30 13:18:33 UTC" "2020-11-01 08:46:53 UTC"
rand_posixct(c("1995-04-01", "2000-01-01"), c("2000-04-01", "2000-01-30"))
#> [1] "1998-04-02 14:09:48 UTC" "2000-01-05 13:25:01 UTC"