api_to_date: Convert API Time Back to a Timestamp
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Description Usage Arguments Value Examples

This is a convenience function that wraps as.POSIXct to convert a time represented in seconds after the unit epoch to a more human interpretable timestamp.

1	api_to_date(api_date, tz = "")

`api_date`	A date or vector of dates to be converted
`tz`	The timezone you want the resulting output to be in, defaults to system's timezone when calling this function directly.

A POSIXct of the input

# capture the current time
right_now <- Sys.time()

# convert it to api format (seconds after unit epoch)
right_now_as_api <- date_to_api(right_now)

# and back to current time
api_to_date(right_now_as_api)