Implicit coercion when operating with strings

[qgeissmann]

I personally find it quite useful to be able to implicitly coerce strings to time objects.
I believe this is implemented in POSIXct. For instance: as.POSIXct("2016-01-01") == "2016-01-01" is TRUE.
In hms, we could be writing x > "23:50:21.100" instead of x > hms(21.100, 50,23) (or explicitly using as.hms()).
Now, we have:

> hms(1) > "00:00:02"
#> TRUE 

I am happy to implement this new feature if you want

[krlmlr]

I'd rather be explicit here, and not coerce implicitly.

[krlmlr]

Seems we can't define Ops.hms() without breaking things (#18). Would we need that to change the behavior of > ?

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