fix_utc_offset: Fix UTC offset strings

In nationalparkservice/IMDQC: NPS Inventory and Monitoring Quality Control Toolkit

Fix UTC offset strings

Description

UTC offsets can be formatted in multiple ways (e.g. -07, -07:00, -0700) and R often struggles to parse these offsets. This function takes date/time strings with valid UTC offsets, and formats them so that they are consistent and readable by R. Here, you can supply a vector of dates in ISO 8601 format and they will be returned in a consistent format compatible with R. Date strings with missing or invalid UTC offsets will result in a warning.

Usage

fix_utc_offset(datetime_strings)

Arguments

datetime_strings

Character vector of dates in ISO 8601 format

Value

datetime_strings with UTC offsets consistently formatted to four digits (e.g. "2023-11-16T03:32:49-0700").

Examples

datetimes <- c("2023-11-16T03:32:49+07:00", "2023-11-16T03:32:49-07",
"2023-11-16T03:32:49","2023-11-16T03:32:49Z")
fix_utc_offset(datetimes)

nationalparkservice/IMDQC documentation built on March 29, 2025, 10:54 p.m.