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## find default time interval end points when intervals are regular

### Description

find default time interval end points when intervals are regular

### Usage

    delta(x)

### Arguments

`x` | object of class `xts`, or of another class that can be coerced into `POSIXct`

;

### Details

to find the interval size for the last observation (which has no next observation), `x` needs to be at least of length 2.

### Value

sequence of `POSIXct` time stamps, indicating the end of the time interval, given by the next observation in `x`. The last interval gets the same width of the one-but-last interval.

### Author(s)

Edzer Pebesma

### References

http://www.jstatsoft.org/v51/i07/

### Examples

    x = as.POSIXct("2000-01-01") + (0:9) * 3600
    delta(x)

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