R/utils.R

In rOpenGov/rwfs: R Clients for Open Geospatial Consortium's Web Feature Services

# This file is a part of the rwfs package (http://github.com/rOpenGov/rwfs)
# in association with the rOpenGov project (ropengov.github.io)

# Copyright (C) 2014 Jussi Jousimo
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#' Returns date time string in ISO8601 format
#' 
#' Converts an object which can be converted to a POSIXlt object to a ISO8601 
#' date time string.
#' 
#' @param dt Date time object which can be converted to a POSIXlt object.
#' @return Character string in ISO8601 format.
#' @author Jussi Jousimo \email{jvj@@iki.fi}
#' @export
#' @examples asISO8601("2014-01-01")
#' 
asISO8601 <- function(dt) {
  return(strftime(dt, "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ"))
}