Example: R Time and Date
How to use and format time and date information in R.
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ISO 8601 Format
Reading time:
as.POSIXlt(Sys.time(), "UTC", "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S")
## [1] "2018-12-11 16:31:25 UTC"
as.POSIXlt(Sys.time(), "Asia/Baghdad", "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S")
## [1] "2018-12-11 19:31:26 +03"
Writing time:
tm = as.POSIXlt(Sys.time(), "Asia/Baghdad", "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S")
strftime(tm , "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z")
## [1] "2018-12-11T19:31:26+0300"
strftime(Sys.time(), "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z")
## [1] "2018-12-11T19:31:26+0300"
