GMTOffsetFromTz: Determine time offset from timezone

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Determine time offset from timezone

Description

The data are from ⁠https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/⁠ and were hand-edited to develop this code, so there may be errors. Also, note that some of these contradict; if you examine the code, you'll see some commented-out portions that represent solving conflicting definitions by choosing the more common timezone abbreviation over a the less common one.

Usage

GMTOffsetFromTz(tz)

Arguments

tz	a timezone, e.g. UTC.

Value

Number of hours in offset, e.g. AST yields 4.

Author(s)

Dan Kelley

Examples

library(oce)
cat("Atlantic Standard Time is ", GMTOffsetFromTz("AST"), "hours after UTC")

oce documentation built on July 9, 2023, 5:18 p.m.