stri_datetime_format: Date and Time Formatting and Parsing
In stringi: Fast and Portable Character String Processing Facilities
stri_datetime_format R Documentation
Date and Time Formatting and Parsing
Description
These functions convert a given date/time object
to a character vector, or vice versa.
Usage
stri_datetime_format(
time,
format = "uuuu-MM-dd HH:mm:ss",
tz = NULL,
locale = NULL
)
stri_datetime_parse(
str,
format = "uuuu-MM-dd HH:mm:ss",
lenient = FALSE,
tz = NULL,
locale = NULL
)
Arguments
time
an object of class POSIXct with date-time data
to be formatted
(as.POSIXct will be called on character vectors
and objects of class POSIXlt, Date, and factor)
format
character vector, see Details; see also stri_datetime_fstr
tz
NULL or '' for the default time zone
or a single string with a timezone identifier,
see stri_timezone_get and stri_timezone_list
locale
NULL or '' for the default locale,
or a single string with locale identifier; a non-Gregorian calendar
may be specified by setting the @calendar=name keyword
str
character vector with strings to be parsed
lenient
single logical value; should date/time parsing be lenient?
Details
Vectorized over format and time or str.
When parsing strings, unspecified date-time fields
(e.g., seconds where only hours and minutes are given)
are based on today's midnight in the local time zone
(for compatibility with strptime).
By default, stri_datetime_format (for compatibility
with the strftime function)
formats a date/time object using the current default time zone.
format may be one of DT_STYLE or DT_relative_STYLE,
where DT is equal to date, time, or datetime,
and STYLE is equal to full, long, medium,
or short. This gives a locale-dependent date and/or time format.
Note that currently ICU does not support relative
time formats, thus this flag is currently ignored in such a context.
Otherwise, format is a pattern:
a string where specific sequences of characters are replaced
with date/time data from a calendar when formatting or used
to generate data for a calendar when parsing.
For example, y stands for 'year'. Characters
may be used multiple times:
yy might produce 99, whereas yyyy yields 1999.
For most numerical fields, the number of characters specifies
the field width. For example, if h is the hour, h might
produce 5, but hh yields 05.
For some characters, the count specifies whether an abbreviated
or full form should be used.
Two single quotes represent a literal single quote, either
inside or outside single quotes. Text within single quotes
is not interpreted in any way (except for two adjacent single quotes).
Otherwise, all ASCII letters from a to z and
A to Z are reserved as syntax characters, and require quoting
if they are to represent literal characters. In addition, certain
ASCII punctuation characters may become available in the future
(e.g., : being interpreted as the time separator and /
as a date separator, and replaced by respective
locale-sensitive characters in display).
Symbol Meaning Example(s) Output
G era designator G, GG, or GGG AD
GGGG Anno Domini
GGGGG A
y year yy 96
y or yyyy 1996
u extended year u 4601
U cyclic year name, as in Chinese lunar calendar U
r related Gregorian year r 1996
Q quarter Q or QQ 02
QQQ Q2
QQQQ 2nd quarter
QQQQQ 2
q Stand Alone quarter q or qq 02
qqq Q2
qqqq 2nd quarter
qqqqq 2
M month in year M or MM 09
MMM Sep
MMMM September
MMMMM S
L Stand Alone month in year L or LL 09
LLL Sep
LLLL September
LLLLL S
w week of year w or ww 27
W week of month W 2
d day in month d 2
dd 02
D day of year D 189
F day of week in month F 2 (2nd Wed in July)
g modified Julian day g 2451334
E day of week E, EE, or EEE Tue
EEEE Tuesday
EEEEE T
EEEEEE Tu
e local day of week e or ee 2
example: if Monday is 1st day, Tuesday is 2nd ) eee Tue
eeee Tuesday
eeeee T
eeeeee Tu
c Stand Alone local day of week c or cc 2
ccc Tue
cccc Tuesday
ccccc T
cccccc Tu
a am/pm marker a pm
h hour in am/pm (1~12) h 7
hh 07
H hour in day (0~23) H 0
HH 00
k hour in day (1~24) k 24
kk 24
K hour in am/pm (0~11) K 0
KK 00
m minute in hour m 4
mm 04
s second in minute s 5
ss 05
S fractional second - truncates (like other time fields) S 2
to the count of letters when formatting. Appends SS 23
zeros if more than 3 letters specified. Truncates at SSS 235
three significant digits when parsing. SSSS 2350
A milliseconds in day A 61201235
z Time Zone: specific non-location z, zz, or zzz PDT
zzzz Pacific Daylight Time
Z Time Zone: ISO8601 basic hms? / RFC 822 Z, ZZ, or ZZZ -0800
Time Zone: long localized GMT (=OOOO) ZZZZ GMT-08:00
Time Zone: ISO8601 extended hms? (=XXXXX) ZZZZZ -08:00, -07:52:58, Z
O Time Zone: short localized GMT O GMT-8
Time Zone: long localized GMT (=ZZZZ) OOOO GMT-08:00
v Time Zone: generic non-location v PT
(falls back first to VVVV) vvvv Pacific Time or Los Angeles Time
V Time Zone: short time zone ID V uslax
Time Zone: long time zone ID VV America/Los_Angeles
Time Zone: time zone exemplar city VVV Los Angeles
Time Zone: generic location (falls back to OOOO) VVVV Los Angeles Time
X Time Zone: ISO8601 basic hm?, with Z for 0 X -08, +0530, Z
Time Zone: ISO8601 basic hm, with Z XX -0800, Z
Time Zone: ISO8601 extended hm, with Z XXX -08:00, Z
Time Zone: ISO8601 basic hms?, with Z XXXX -0800, -075258, Z
Time Zone: ISO8601 extended hms?, with Z XXXXX -08:00, -07:52:58, Z
x Time Zone: ISO8601 basic hm?, without Z for 0 x -08, +0530
Time Zone: ISO8601 basic hm, without Z xx -0800
Time Zone: ISO8601 extended hm, without Z xxx -08:00
Time Zone: ISO8601 basic hms?, without Z xxxx -0800, -075258
Time Zone: ISO8601 extended hms?, without Z xxxxx -08:00, -07:52:58
' escape for text ' (nothing)
' ' two single quotes produce one ' ' '
Note that any characters in the pattern that are not in the ranges
of [a-z] and [A-Z] will be treated as quoted text.
For instance, characters like :, ., (a space),
# and @ will appear in the resulting time text
even if they are not enclosed within single quotes. The single quote is used
to “escape” the letters. Two single quotes in a row,
inside or outside a quoted sequence, represent a “real” single quote.
A few examples:
Example Pattern Result
yyyy.MM.dd 'at' HH:mm:ss zzz 2015.12.31 at 23:59:59 GMT+1
EEE, MMM d, ''yy czw., gru 31, '15
h:mm a 11:59 PM
hh 'o''clock' a, zzzz 11 o'clock PM, GMT+01:00
K:mm a, z 11:59 PM, GMT+1
yyyyy.MMMM.dd GGG hh:mm aaa 2015.grudnia.31 n.e. 11:59 PM
uuuu-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ 2015-12-31T23:59:59+0100 (the ISO 8601 guideline)
Value
stri_datetime_format returns a character vector.
stri_datetime_parse returns an object of class POSIXct.
Author(s)
Marek Gagolewski and other contributors
References
Formatting Dates and Times – ICU User Guide,
https://unicode-org.github.io/icu/userguide/format_parse/datetime/
See Also
The official online manual of stringi at https://stringi.gagolewski.com/
Gagolewski M., stringi: Fast and portable character string processing in R, Journal of Statistical Software 103(2), 2022, 1-59, \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.18637/jss.v103.i02")}
Other datetime:
stri_datetime_add(),
stri_datetime_create(),
stri_datetime_fields(),
stri_datetime_fstr(),
stri_datetime_now(),
stri_datetime_symbols(),
stri_timezone_get(),
stri_timezone_info(),
stri_timezone_list()
Examples
x <- c('2015-02-28', '2015-02-29')
stri_datetime_parse(x, 'yyyy-MM-dd')
stri_datetime_parse(x, 'yyyy-MM-dd', lenient=TRUE)
stri_datetime_parse(x %s+% " 17:13", "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm")
stri_datetime_parse('19 lipca 2015', 'date_long', locale='pl_PL')
stri_datetime_format(stri_datetime_now(), 'datetime_relative_medium')
stringi documentation built on Nov. 23, 2023, 5:07 p.m.
R Package Documentation
Browse R Packages
We want your feedback!
Note that we can't provide technical support on individual packages. You should contact the package authors for that.
| stri_datetime_format | R Documentation |
Date and Time Formatting and Parsing
Description
These functions convert a given date/time object to a character vector, or vice versa.
Usage
stri_datetime_format(
time,
format = "uuuu-MM-dd HH:mm:ss",
tz = NULL,
locale = NULL
)
stri_datetime_parse(
str,
format = "uuuu-MM-dd HH:mm:ss",
lenient = FALSE,
tz = NULL,
locale = NULL
)
Arguments
time |
an object of class |
format |
character vector, see Details; see also |
tz |
|
locale |
|
str |
character vector with strings to be parsed |
lenient |
single logical value; should date/time parsing be lenient? |
Details
Vectorized over format and time or str.
When parsing strings, unspecified date-time fields
(e.g., seconds where only hours and minutes are given)
are based on today's midnight in the local time zone
(for compatibility with strptime).
By default, stri_datetime_format (for compatibility
with the strftime function)
formats a date/time object using the current default time zone.
format may be one of DT_STYLE or DT_relative_STYLE,
where DT is equal to date, time, or datetime,
and STYLE is equal to full, long, medium,
or short. This gives a locale-dependent date and/or time format.
Note that currently ICU does not support relative
time formats, thus this flag is currently ignored in such a context.
Otherwise, format is a pattern:
a string where specific sequences of characters are replaced
with date/time data from a calendar when formatting or used
to generate data for a calendar when parsing.
For example, y stands for 'year'. Characters
may be used multiple times:
yy might produce 99, whereas yyyy yields 1999.
For most numerical fields, the number of characters specifies
the field width. For example, if h is the hour, h might
produce 5, but hh yields 05.
For some characters, the count specifies whether an abbreviated
or full form should be used.
Two single quotes represent a literal single quote, either
inside or outside single quotes. Text within single quotes
is not interpreted in any way (except for two adjacent single quotes).
Otherwise, all ASCII letters from a to z and
A to Z are reserved as syntax characters, and require quoting
if they are to represent literal characters. In addition, certain
ASCII punctuation characters may become available in the future
(e.g., : being interpreted as the time separator and /
as a date separator, and replaced by respective
locale-sensitive characters in display).
| Symbol | Meaning | Example(s) | Output |
| G | era designator | G, GG, or GGG | AD |
| GGGG | Anno Domini | ||
| GGGGG | A | ||
| y | year | yy | 96 |
| y or yyyy | 1996 | ||
| u | extended year | u | 4601 |
| U | cyclic year name, as in Chinese lunar calendar | U | |
| r | related Gregorian year | r | 1996 |
| Q | quarter | Q or QQ | 02 |
| QQQ | Q2 | ||
| QQQQ | 2nd quarter | ||
| QQQQQ | 2 | ||
| q | Stand Alone quarter | q or qq | 02 |
| qqq | Q2 | ||
| qqqq | 2nd quarter | ||
| qqqqq | 2 | ||
| M | month in year | M or MM | 09 |
| MMM | Sep | ||
| MMMM | September | ||
| MMMMM | S | ||
| L | Stand Alone month in year | L or LL | 09 |
| LLL | Sep | ||
| LLLL | September | ||
| LLLLL | S | ||
| w | week of year | w or ww | 27 |
| W | week of month | W | 2 |
| d | day in month | d | 2 |
| dd | 02 | ||
| D | day of year | D | 189 |
| F | day of week in month | F | 2 (2nd Wed in July) |
| g | modified Julian day | g | 2451334 |
| E | day of week | E, EE, or EEE | Tue |
| EEEE | Tuesday | ||
| EEEEE | T | ||
| EEEEEE | Tu | ||
| e | local day of week | e or ee | 2 |
| example: if Monday is 1st day, Tuesday is 2nd ) | eee | Tue | |
| eeee | Tuesday | ||
| eeeee | T | ||
| eeeeee | Tu | ||
| c | Stand Alone local day of week | c or cc | 2 |
| ccc | Tue | ||
| cccc | Tuesday | ||
| ccccc | T | ||
| cccccc | Tu | ||
| a | am/pm marker | a | pm |
| h | hour in am/pm (1~12) | h | 7 |
| hh | 07 | ||
| H | hour in day (0~23) | H | 0 |
| HH | 00 | ||
| k | hour in day (1~24) | k | 24 |
| kk | 24 | ||
| K | hour in am/pm (0~11) | K | 0 |
| KK | 00 | ||
| m | minute in hour | m | 4 |
| mm | 04 | ||
| s | second in minute | s | 5 |
| ss | 05 | ||
| S | fractional second - truncates (like other time fields) | S | 2 |
| to the count of letters when formatting. Appends | SS | 23 | |
| zeros if more than 3 letters specified. Truncates at | SSS | 235 | |
| three significant digits when parsing. | SSSS | 2350 | |
| A | milliseconds in day | A | 61201235 |
| z | Time Zone: specific non-location | z, zz, or zzz | PDT |
| zzzz | Pacific Daylight Time | ||
| Z | Time Zone: ISO8601 basic hms? / RFC 822 | Z, ZZ, or ZZZ | -0800 |
| Time Zone: long localized GMT (=OOOO) | ZZZZ | GMT-08:00 | |
| Time Zone: ISO8601 extended hms? (=XXXXX) | ZZZZZ | -08:00, -07:52:58, Z | |
| O | Time Zone: short localized GMT | O | GMT-8 |
| Time Zone: long localized GMT (=ZZZZ) | OOOO | GMT-08:00 | |
| v | Time Zone: generic non-location | v | PT |
| (falls back first to VVVV) | vvvv | Pacific Time or Los Angeles Time | |
| V | Time Zone: short time zone ID | V | uslax |
| Time Zone: long time zone ID | VV | America/Los_Angeles | |
| Time Zone: time zone exemplar city | VVV | Los Angeles | |
| Time Zone: generic location (falls back to OOOO) | VVVV | Los Angeles Time | |
| X | Time Zone: ISO8601 basic hm?, with Z for 0 | X | -08, +0530, Z |
| Time Zone: ISO8601 basic hm, with Z | XX | -0800, Z | |
| Time Zone: ISO8601 extended hm, with Z | XXX | -08:00, Z | |
| Time Zone: ISO8601 basic hms?, with Z | XXXX | -0800, -075258, Z | |
| Time Zone: ISO8601 extended hms?, with Z | XXXXX | -08:00, -07:52:58, Z | |
| x | Time Zone: ISO8601 basic hm?, without Z for 0 | x | -08, +0530 |
| Time Zone: ISO8601 basic hm, without Z | xx | -0800 | |
| Time Zone: ISO8601 extended hm, without Z | xxx | -08:00 | |
| Time Zone: ISO8601 basic hms?, without Z | xxxx | -0800, -075258 | |
| Time Zone: ISO8601 extended hms?, without Z | xxxxx | -08:00, -07:52:58 | |
| ' | escape for text | ' | (nothing) |
| ' ' | two single quotes produce one | ' ' | ' |
Note that any characters in the pattern that are not in the ranges
of [a-z] and [A-Z] will be treated as quoted text.
For instance, characters like :, ., (a space),
# and @ will appear in the resulting time text
even if they are not enclosed within single quotes. The single quote is used
to “escape” the letters. Two single quotes in a row,
inside or outside a quoted sequence, represent a “real” single quote.
A few examples:
| Example Pattern | Result |
| yyyy.MM.dd 'at' HH:mm:ss zzz | 2015.12.31 at 23:59:59 GMT+1 |
| EEE, MMM d, ''yy | czw., gru 31, '15 |
| h:mm a | 11:59 PM |
| hh 'o''clock' a, zzzz | 11 o'clock PM, GMT+01:00 |
| K:mm a, z | 11:59 PM, GMT+1 |
| yyyyy.MMMM.dd GGG hh:mm aaa | 2015.grudnia.31 n.e. 11:59 PM |
| uuuu-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ | 2015-12-31T23:59:59+0100 (the ISO 8601 guideline) |
Value
stri_datetime_format returns a character vector.
stri_datetime_parse returns an object of class POSIXct.
Author(s)
Marek Gagolewski and other contributors
References
Formatting Dates and Times – ICU User Guide, https://unicode-org.github.io/icu/userguide/format_parse/datetime/
See Also
The official online manual of stringi at https://stringi.gagolewski.com/
Gagolewski M., stringi: Fast and portable character string processing in R, Journal of Statistical Software 103(2), 2022, 1-59, \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.18637/jss.v103.i02")}
Other datetime:
stri_datetime_add(),
stri_datetime_create(),
stri_datetime_fields(),
stri_datetime_fstr(),
stri_datetime_now(),
stri_datetime_symbols(),
stri_timezone_get(),
stri_timezone_info(),
stri_timezone_list()
Examples
x <- c('2015-02-28', '2015-02-29')
stri_datetime_parse(x, 'yyyy-MM-dd')
stri_datetime_parse(x, 'yyyy-MM-dd', lenient=TRUE)
stri_datetime_parse(x %s+% " 17:13", "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm")
stri_datetime_parse('19 lipca 2015', 'date_long', locale='pl_PL')
stri_datetime_format(stri_datetime_now(), 'datetime_relative_medium')
R Package Documentation
Browse R Packages
We want your feedback!
Note that we can't provide technical support on individual packages. You should contact the package authors for that.
Embedding an R snippet on your website
Add the following code to your website.
For more information on customizing the embed code, read Embedding Snippets.