with_tz
From lubridate v0.1
by Hadley Wickham
Get date-time in a different time zone...
Get date-time in a different time zone
Usage
with_tz(time, tzone="")
Arguments
- time
- a POSIXct, POSIXlt, Date, or chron date-time object.
- tzone
- a character string containing the time zone to convert to. R must recognize the name contained in the string as a time zone on your system.
Details
with_tz returns a date-time as it would appear in a different time zone. The actual moment of time measured does not change, just the time zone it is measured in.
Value
- a POSIXct object in the updated time zone
See Also
Examples
x <- as.POSIXct("2009-08-07 00:00:01", tz = "America/New_york")
with_tz(x, "GMT")
# "2009-08-07 04:00:01 GMT"}
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