stringi (version 1.8.4)

stri_timezone_list: List Available Time Zone Identifiers

Description

Returns a list of available time zone identifiers.

Usage

stri_timezone_list(region = NA_character_, offset = NA_integer_)

Value

Returns a character vector.

Arguments

region

single string; a ISO 3166 two-letter country code or UN M.49 three-digit area code; NA for all regions

offset

single numeric value; a given raw offset from GMT, in hours; NA for all offsets

Author

Marek Gagolewski and other contributors

Details

If offset and region are NA (the default), then all time zones are returned. Otherwise, only time zone identifiers with a given raw offset from GMT and/or time zones corresponding to a given region are provided. Note that the effect of daylight savings time is ignored.

A time zone represents an offset applied to the Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) to obtain local time (Universal Coordinated Time, or UTC, is similar, but not precisely identical, to GMT; in ICU the two terms are used interchangeably since ICU does not concern itself with either leap seconds or historical behavior). The offset might vary throughout the year, if daylight savings time (DST) is used, or might be the same all year long. Typically, regions closer to the equator do not use DST. If DST is in use, then specific rules define the point where the offset changes and the amount by which it changes.

If DST is observed, then three additional bits of information are needed:

1. The precise date and time during the year when DST begins. In the first half of the year it is in the northern hemisphere, and in the second half of the year it is in the southern hemisphere.

2. The precise date and time during the year when DST ends. In the first half of the year it is in the southern hemisphere, and in the second half of the year it is in the northern hemisphere.

3. The amount by which the GMT offset changes when DST is in effect. This is almost always one hour.

References

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

ICU TimeZone classes -- ICU User Guide, https://unicode-org.github.io/icu/userguide/datetime/timezone/

Date/Time Services -- ICU User Guide, https://unicode-org.github.io/icu/userguide/datetime/

See Also

The official online manual of stringi at https://stringi.gagolewski.com/

Gagolewski M., stringi: Fast and portable character string processing in R, Journal of Statistical Software 103(2), 2022, 1-59, tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.18637/jss.v103.i02")

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_info()

Other timezone: stri_timezone_get(), stri_timezone_info()

Examples

stri_timezone_list()
stri_timezone_list(offset=1)
stri_timezone_list(offset=5.5)
stri_timezone_list(offset=5.75)
stri_timezone_list(region='PL')
stri_timezone_list(region='US', offset=-10)

# Fetch information on all time zones
do.call(rbind.data.frame,
   lapply(stri_timezone_list(), function(tz) stri_timezone_info(tz)))