Creates a list of defaults for reading/printing times and dates.
Usage
timeDefaults()
Arguments
Value
returns a list containing the following components:
month.name
the names of the calendar months.
month.abb
the abbreviations for the calendar months.
day.name
the names of the weekdays.
day.abb
the abbreviations for the weekdays.
am.pm
strings for printing/reading AM and PM.
century
the first year of 100-year stretch to use for the current century
in reading/printing dates, e.g. 1900.
zone
the time zone.
Details
The list components are read from their corresponding options,
which are the component names with "time." prepended. For example, the
weekday names come from timeDateOptions("time.day.name").