stringi (version 1.1.1)

stri_timezone_info: [DRAFT API] Query a Given Time Zone

Description

Provides some basic information on a given time zone identifier.

Usage

stri_timezone_info(tz = NULL, locale = NULL, display_type = "long")

Arguments

tz

NULL or "" for default time zone, or a single string with time zone ID otherwise

locale

NULL or "" for default locale, or a single string with locale identifier

display_type

single string; one of "short", "long", "generic_short", "generic_long", "gmt_short", "gmt_long", "common", "generic_location"

Value

Returns a list with the following named components:

1. ID (time zone identifier),
2. Name (localized human-readable time zone name),
3. Name.Daylight (localized human-readable time zone name when DST is used, if available),
4. Name.Windows (Windows time zone ID, if available),
5. RawOffset (raw GMT offset, in hours, before taking daylight savings into account), and
6. UsesDaylightTime (states whether a time zone uses daylight savings time in the current Gregorian calendar year).

Details

With this function you may fetch some basic information on any supported time zone.

For more information on time zone representation in ICU, see stri_timezone_list.

See Also

Other datetime: stri_datetime_add, stri_datetime_create, stri_datetime_fields, stri_datetime_format, stri_datetime_fstr, stri_datetime_now, stri_datetime_symbols, stri_timezone_get, stri_timezone_list

Other timezone: stri_timezone_get, stri_timezone_list

Examples

stri_timezone_info()
stri_timezone_info(locale="sk_SK")
sapply(c("short", "long", "generic_short", "generic_long",
         "gmt_short", "gmt_long", "common", "generic_location"),
  function(e) stri_timezone_info("Europe/London", display_type=e))

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