stringi (version 1.5.3)

stri_timezone_get: Set or Get Default Time Zone in stringi

Description

stri_timezone_set changes the current default time zone for all functions in the stringi package, i.e., establishes the meaning of the ``NULL time zone'' argument to date/time processing functions.

stri_timezone_get gets the current default time zone.

For more information on time zone representation in ICU and stringi, refer to stri_timezone_list.

Usage

stri_timezone_get()
stri_timezone_set(tz)

Arguments

tz

single string; time zone identifier

Value

stri_timezone_set returns a string with previously used timezone, invisibly.

stri_timezone_get returns a single string with the current default time zone.

Details

Unless the default time zone has already been set using stri_timezone_set, the default time zone is determined by querying the OS with methods in ICU's internal platform utilities.

References

TimeZone class -- ICU API Documentation, https://unicode-org.github.io/icu-docs/apidoc/dev/icu4c/classicu_1_1TimeZone.html

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_info(), stri_timezone_list()

Other timezone: stri_timezone_info(), stri_timezone_list()

Examples

# NOT RUN {
oldtz <- stri_timezone_set('Europe/Warsaw')
# ... many time zone-dependent operations
stri_timezone_set(oldtz) # restore previous default time zone
# }
# NOT RUN {
# }