lubridate (version 0.2.4)

today: The current date...

Description

The current date

Usage

today(tzone="")

Arguments

tzone
a character vector specifying which time zone you would like to find the current date of. tzone defaults to the system time zone set on your computer.

Value

  • the current date as a Date object

Examples

Run this code
today()
today("GMT")
today() == today("GMT") # not always true
today() < as.Date("2999-01-01") # TRUE  (so far)}

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