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Current date and date-time

Source: R/date.R, R/posixt.R
date-today.Rd

  • date_today() returns the current date in the specified zone as a Date.

  • date_now() returns the current date-time in the specified zone as a POSIXct.

Usage

date_today(zone)

date_now(zone)

Arguments

zone

[character(1)]

A time zone to get the current time for.

Value

  • date_today() a single Date.

  • date_now() a single POSIXct.

Details

clock assumes that Date is a naive type, like naive-time. This means that date_today() first looks up the current date-time in the specified zone, then converts that to a Date, retaining the printed time while dropping any information about that time zone.

Examples

# Current date in the local time zone
date_today("")
#> [1] "2023-05-15"

# Current date in a specified time zone
date_today("Europe/London")
#> [1] "2023-05-15"

# Current date-time in that same time zone
date_now("Europe/London")
#> [1] "2023-05-15 20:26:51 BST"