as.POSIXct with datetimes including midnight

Question

I am wanting to convert date-times stored as characters to date-time objects. However if a date time includes midnight then the resulting datetime object excludes the time c

Answer 1

I prefer to use the lubridate package for date-times. It does not seem to cause problems here either:

example.dates <- c("2011-11-02 00:31:00","2011-11-02 00:00:00","2011-11-02 00:20:22")
library(lubridate)
ymd_hms(example.dates)