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Building: date-time

Source: R/posixt.R
date_time_build.Rd

date_time_build() builds a POSIXct from it's individual components.

To build a POSIXct, it is required that you specify the zone.

Usage

date_time_build(
  year,
  month = 1L,
  day = 1L,
  hour = 0L,
  minute = 0L,
  second = 0L,
  ...,
  zone,
  invalid = NULL,
  nonexistent = NULL,
  ambiguous = NULL
)

Arguments

year

[integer]

The year. Values [-32767, 32767] are generally allowed.

month

[integer]

The month. Values [1, 12] are allowed.

day

[integer / "last"]

The day of the month. Values [1, 31] are allowed.

If "last", then the last day of the month is returned.

hour

[integer]

The hour. Values [0, 23] are allowed.

minute

[integer]

The minute. Values [0, 59] are allowed.

second

[integer]

The second. Values [0, 59] are allowed.

...

These dots are for future extensions and must be empty.

zone

[character(1)]

A valid time zone name.

This argument is required, and must be specified by name.

invalid

[character(1) / NULL]

One of the following invalid date resolution strategies:

  • "previous": The previous valid instant in time.

  • "previous-day": The previous valid day in time, keeping the time of day.

  • "next": The next valid instant in time.

  • "next-day": The next valid day in time, keeping the time of day.

  • "overflow": Overflow by the number of days that the input is invalid by. Time of day is dropped.

  • "overflow-day": Overflow by the number of days that the input is invalid by. Time of day is kept.

  • "NA": Replace invalid dates with NA.

  • "error": Error on invalid dates.

Using either "previous" or "next" is generally recommended, as these two strategies maintain the relative ordering between elements of the input.

If NULL, defaults to "error".

If getOption("clock.strict") is TRUE, invalid must be supplied and cannot be NULL. This is a convenient way to make production code robust to invalid dates.

nonexistent

[character / NULL]

One of the following nonexistent time resolution strategies, allowed to be either length 1, or the same length as the input:

  • "roll-forward": The next valid instant in time.

  • "roll-backward": The previous valid instant in time.

  • "shift-forward": Shift the nonexistent time forward by the size of the daylight saving time gap.

  • "shift-backward: Shift the nonexistent time backward by the size of the daylight saving time gap.

  • "NA": Replace nonexistent times with NA.

  • "error": Error on nonexistent times.

Using either "roll-forward" or "roll-backward" is generally recommended over shifting, as these two strategies maintain the relative ordering between elements of the input.

If NULL, defaults to "error".

If getOption("clock.strict") is TRUE, nonexistent must be supplied and cannot be NULL. This is a convenient way to make production code robust to nonexistent times.

ambiguous

[character / zoned_time / POSIXct / list(2) / NULL]

One of the following ambiguous time resolution strategies, allowed to be either length 1, or the same length as the input:

  • "earliest": Of the two possible times, choose the earliest one.

  • "latest": Of the two possible times, choose the latest one.

  • "NA": Replace ambiguous times with NA.

  • "error": Error on ambiguous times.

Alternatively, ambiguous is allowed to be a zoned_time (or POSIXct) that is either length 1, or the same length as the input. If an ambiguous time is encountered, the zoned_time is consulted. If the zoned_time corresponds to a naive_time that is also ambiguous and uses the same daylight saving time transition point as the original ambiguous time, then the offset of the zoned_time is used to resolve the ambiguity. If the ambiguity cannot be resolved by consulting the zoned_time, then this method falls back to NULL.

Finally, ambiguous is allowed to be a list of size 2, where the first element of the list is a zoned_time (as described above), and the second element of the list is an ambiguous time resolution strategy to use when the ambiguous time cannot be resolved by consulting the zoned_time. Specifying a zoned_time on its own is identical to list(<zoned_time>, NULL).

If NULL, defaults to "error".

If getOption("clock.strict") is TRUE, ambiguous must be supplied and cannot be NULL. Additionally, ambiguous cannot be specified as a zoned_time on its own, as this implies NULL for ambiguous times that the zoned_time cannot resolve. Instead, it must be specified as a list alongside an ambiguous time resolution strategy as described above. This is a convenient way to make production code robust to ambiguous times.

Value

A POSIXct.

Details

Components are recycled against each other using tidyverse recycling rules.

Examples

# The zone argument is required!
# clock always requires you to be explicit about your choice of `zone`.
try(date_time_build(2020))
#> Error in date_time_build(2020) : `zone` must be supplied.

date_time_build(2020, zone = "America/New_York")
#> [1] "2020-01-01 EST"

# Nonexistent time due to daylight saving time gap from 01:59:59 -> 03:00:00
try(date_time_build(1970, 4, 26, 1:12, 30, zone = "America/New_York"))
#> Error in as_zoned_time(x, zone = tz, nonexistent = nonexistent, ambiguous = ambiguous) : 
#>   Nonexistent time due to daylight saving time at location 2.
#> ℹ Resolve nonexistent time issues by specifying the `nonexistent` argument.

# Resolve with a nonexistent time resolution strategy
date_time_build(
  1970, 4, 26, 1:12, 30,
  zone = "America/New_York",
  nonexistent = "roll-forward"
)
#>  [1] "1970-04-26 01:30:00 EST" "1970-04-26 03:00:00 EDT"
#>  [3] "1970-04-26 03:30:00 EDT" "1970-04-26 04:30:00 EDT"
#>  [5] "1970-04-26 05:30:00 EDT" "1970-04-26 06:30:00 EDT"
#>  [7] "1970-04-26 07:30:00 EDT" "1970-04-26 08:30:00 EDT"
#>  [9] "1970-04-26 09:30:00 EDT" "1970-04-26 10:30:00 EDT"
#> [11] "1970-04-26 11:30:00 EDT" "1970-04-26 12:30:00 EDT"