From e6eb0d65d8684b42b6f4824a9b0446f3f9557650 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: hadley <h.wickham@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 09:53:14 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Mention numeric offsets from epoch

---
 datetimes.Rmd | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/datetimes.Rmd b/datetimes.Rmd
index be710d8..e393139 100644
--- a/datetimes.Rmd
+++ b/datetimes.Rmd
@@ -160,6 +160,13 @@ You may want to switch between a date-time and a date. That's the job of `as_dat
 as_date(now())
 ```
 
+Sometimes you'll get date/times as numeric offsets from the "Unix Epoch", 1970-01-01. If the offset is in seconds, use `as_datetime()`; if it's in days, use `as_date()`.
+
+```{r}
+# as_datetime(60 * 60 * 10)
+as_date(365)
+```
+
 ### Exercises
 
 1.  What happens if you parse a string that contains invalid dates?