Formatting dates

[Dennis Fisher <fisher@plessthan.com>]

Colleagues

I am working with Splus 8.0 in RedHat Linux.  I am attempting to perform a task in Splus that is simple to do in R, reformatting the system time to a string (yymmdd-HHMMSS).

In R, the command is:

> format(Sys.time(), '%y%m%d-%H%M%S')

[1] "071105-072756"

In Splus, date() returns: [1] "Mon Nov 05 07:29:46 PST 2007"

but I cannot find an easy means to reformat it.

Any help will be appreciated.  Thanks.

Dennis

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