Skip to contents

Format methods

base-format.Rd

Formats "timeDate" objects as ISO conform character strings.

Usage

# S3 method for class 'timeDate'
format(x, format = "", tz = "", usetz = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

format

a character string describing the format.

tz

a timezone specification to be used for the conversion.

usetz

a logical.

x

an object of class "timeDate".

...

arguments passed to other methods.

Value

an ISO conforming formatted character string

See also

as.character

Examples

## timeCalendar
# Time Calendar 16:00
tC = timeCalendar() + 16*3600
tC
#> GMT
#>  [1] [2025-01-01 16:00:00] [2025-02-01 16:00:00] [2025-03-01 16:00:00]
#>  [4] [2025-04-01 16:00:00] [2025-05-01 16:00:00] [2025-06-01 16:00:00]
#>  [7] [2025-07-01 16:00:00] [2025-08-01 16:00:00] [2025-09-01 16:00:00]
#> [10] [2025-10-01 16:00:00] [2025-11-01 16:00:00] [2025-12-01 16:00:00]
   
## format as ISO character string 
format(tC)
#>  [1] "2025-01-01 16:00:00" "2025-02-01 16:00:00" "2025-03-01 16:00:00"
#>  [4] "2025-04-01 16:00:00" "2025-05-01 16:00:00" "2025-06-01 16:00:00"
#>  [7] "2025-07-01 16:00:00" "2025-08-01 16:00:00" "2025-09-01 16:00:00"
#> [10] "2025-10-01 16:00:00" "2025-11-01 16:00:00" "2025-12-01 16:00:00"