timeDate (version 4041.110)

listFinCenter: List of financial centers

Description

Lists supported financial centers.

Usage

listFinCenter(pattern = ".*")

Value

a character vector listing the financial centers whose names match

pattern.

Arguments

pattern

a pattern character string as required by the grep function. The default, ".*", gives all supported financial centers

Details

The list returned by listFinCenter doesn't contain all financial centers supported by timeDate. Rather it contains currently supported ‘standard names’ of time zones defined in the tz (a.k.a. Zoneinfo) database. Names supported by previous versions of by timeDate are recognised, even though they are not in the list.

See Also

rulesFinCenter for the daylight saving rules

Examples

## myFinCenter - the global setting currently used
getRmetricsOptions("myFinCenter")

## Other Financial Centers
listFinCenter("Asia/")
listFinCenter("^A")    # all beginning with "A"
listFinCenter("^[^A]") # all *not* beginning with "A"
listFinCenter(".*/L")  # cities with L*

stopifnot(identical(sort(listFinCenter()), ## 'A' and 'not A' == everything:
     sort(union(listFinCenter("^A"),
         listFinCenter("^[^A]")))))