timeCeiling: Ceiling (round up) for data-time objects

In timeDate: Rmetrics - Chronological and Calendar Objects

Ceiling (round up) for data-time objects

Description

Round up a data-time object to the next time unit (day, mhour, month, etc.).

Usage

timeCeiling(x, ...)

## S3 method for class 'POSIXt'
timeCeiling(x, 
    units = c("days", "hours", "mins", "secs", "months", "years"),
    ...)

## S3 method for class 'timeDate'
timeCeiling(x, 
    units = c("days", "hours", "mins", "secs", "months", "years"), 
    ...)

Arguments

x	an object representing date-time.
units	a character string, one of the supported units of time.
...	further arguments for methods.

Details

timeCeiling rounds up to the start of the next time unit, as specified by argument units.

Value

for the "timeDate" method, a "timeDate" object,

for the "POSIXt" method, a "POSIXlt" object

Note

base::ceiling is generic but time methods cannot be defined for it since it has only one argument. The same holds for its relative base::floor.

On the other hand, base::trunc and base::round accept further arguments and therefore "timeDate" methods are defined for them. In fact the method for trunc plays the role of floor.

Author(s)

Georgi N. Boshnakov

See Also

trunc.timeDate, trunc.POSIXt,

round.timeDate, round.POSIXt,

Examples

# create a timeDate object
dts <- c("1989-09-28", "2001-01-15", "2004-08-30", "1990-02-09")
tms <- c(  "23:12:55.13",   "10:34:02.23",   "08:30:00.33",   "11:18:23.53")
td <- timeDate(paste(dts, tms), format = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S",
               zone = "GMT", FinCenter = "GMT")

## timeCeiling
timeCeiling(td) # same as timeCeiling(td, "days")

timeCeiling(td, "secs")
timeCeiling(td, "mins")
timeCeiling(td, "hours")
timeCeiling(td, "days")
timeCeiling(td, "months")
timeCeiling(td, "years")

## rounding with "days" usually sets the time to midnight (the start of a day),
## but it may not exist
Sofia_to_DST_char <- c("1983-03-26 23:00:00",
    "1983-03-27 00:00:00", # change to DST; 0am doesn't exist in Sofia on this date
    "1983-03-27 01:00:00",
    "1983-03-27 02:00:00",
    "1983-03-27 03:00:00")

Sofia_to_DST <- timeDate(Sofia_to_DST_char, zone = "Sofia", FinCenter = "Sofia")
cbind(Sofia_to_DST_char, format(Sofia_to_DST@Data))

## on 27/03/1983 in Sofia the clock jumped at midnight to 1am, so the
## day started at 1am - hence the first time below.  the rest are on the
## next day, which starts at midnight.
timeCeiling(Sofia_to_DST) # same as timeCeiling(Sofia_to_DST, "days")

trunc(Sofia_to_DST)

## to avoid confusion, set non-existent times to NA
Sofia_to_DSTa <- timeDate(Sofia_to_DST_char, zone = "Sofia", FinCenter = "Sofia",
                          dst_gap = "NA")
Sofia_to_DSTa
timeCeiling(Sofia_to_DSTa)

timeDate documentation built on Oct. 21, 2025, 3 a.m.