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stringi (version 1.1.3)

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

Run this code
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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