chronos: Fast general purpose parser for date(time) from input data

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Fast general purpose parser for date(time) from input data

Description

Fast general purpose parser for date(time) from input data

Usage

chronos(x, formats = NULL, tz = "", to_tz = "", out_format = "datetime")

Arguments

x	A vector with date(time) expressions to be parsed and converted.
formats	character vector of formats to try out (see base::strptime). If NULL, uses a set of predefined formats mostly taken from the anytime package.
tz	assumed input timezone. If "", uses local timezone. See details
to_tz	convert datetime to timezone given in to_tz. If "", tz is used. See details
out_format	character. Defining the format of the returned result. Can be "datetime", "date", or "character".

Details

The internal parsing is done "timezoneless". The timezone given in tz is just added to the datetime without any conversion. If to_tz is given, a conversion is made from tz to to_tz.

Value

A character vector which can be transformed to POSIXct or date

See Also

parse_datetime, parse_date, and parse_epoch if you need more control over formatting

Examples

chronos(bench_date)

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