now {lubridate} | R Documentation |
The current day and time
Description
The current day and time
Usage
now(tzone = "")
today(tzone = "")
Arguments
tzone |
a character vector specifying which time zone you would like the current time in. tzone defaults to your computer's system timezone. You can retrieve the current time in the Universal Coordinated Time (UTC) with now("UTC"). |
Value
now
- the current datetime as a POSIXct
object
Examples
now()
now("GMT")
now("")
now() == now() # would be TRUE if computer processed both at the same instant
now() < now() # TRUE
now() > now() # FALSE
today()
today("GMT")
today() == today("GMT") # not always true
today() < as.Date("2999-01-01") # TRUE (so far)
[Package lubridate version 1.9.3 Index]