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MazamaSpatialUtils (version 0.7.6)

SimpleTimezones: Simplified spatial dataset of world timezones.

Description

This dataset is used by default in the getTimezones() function and contains the following columns of data in the @data slot:

  • timezone -- Olson timezone

  • UTC_offset -- offset from UTC (hours)

  • UTC_DST_offset -- offset from UTC during daylight savings (hours)

  • countryCode -- ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code

  • longitude -- longitude of the timezone polygon centroid

  • latitude -- longitude of the timezone polygon centroid

  • status -- one of 'Canonical', 'Alias' or 'Deprecated'

  • notes -- typically specifying the target of an 'Alias'

  • polygonID -- unique identifier (= timezone)

This dataset was generated on 2020-11-12 by running:


library(MazamaSpatialUtils)
setSpatialDataDir("~/Data/Spatial")

convertWorldTimezones()

loadSpatialData("WorldTimezones_02")

SimpleTimezones <- WorldTimezones_02 save(SimpleTimezones, file = "data/SimpleTimezones.rda")

Usage

SimpleTimezones

Arguments

Format

A SpatialPolygonsDataFrame with 423 records and 9 columns of data.