Hello list, I do have a hard time handling date and time data with different timezone offsets. Say, I have two strings which represent different dates/times, like so:
DT1 <- "2021-06-19T13:45:00-03:00" DT2 <- "2020-07-20T11:39:12+02:00" my_dates <- c(DT1, DT2) What I want to do now, is to covert those strings into some kind of datetime object which allows for comparisons (earlier/later etc.). Using as_datetime from the lubridate package seems to do the trick, but it converts DT1 and DT2 with reference to UTC. I guess, this makes sense from a computational point of view, since, most likely, this is how R internally handles dates and times. However, I would like to be able to at least visually distinguish the different timezone offsets, if the data is printed. I'm able to manually set a timezone with the tz parameter of as_datetime: as_datetime(DT1, tz = "EDT") [1] "2020-07-20 09:39:12 EDT" But this only works if I enter the timezone manually. So what I want to ask is this: Is there any possibility, to convert all entries of a vector my_dates (see above) into datetime objects while keeping a visual indication of each timezone offset when the data is printed? Please excuse any awkward phrasing; being pretty new to R, I probably did not phrase anything correctly. Thank you very much in advance! Thomas ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
