jdatetime {shide}

Date-time based on the Jalali calendar

Description

jdatetime is an S3 class for representing date-times with the Jalali calendar dates. It can be constructed from character and numeric vectors.

Usage

jdatetime(x, tzone = "", ...)

## S3 method for class 'character'
jdatetime(x, tzone = "", format = NULL, ..., ambiguous = NULL)

Arguments

x

A vector of numeric or character objects.

tzone

A time zone name. Default value represents local time zone.

...

Arguments passed on to further methods.

format

Format argument for character method.

ambiguous

Resolve ambiguous times that occur during a repeated interval (when the clock is adjusted backwards during the transition from DST to standard time). Possible values are:

• "earliest": Choose the earliest of the two moments.

• "latest": Choose the latest of the two moments.

• "NA": Produce NA.

If NULL, defaults to "earliest"; as this seems to be base R's behavior.

Details

jdatetime is stored internally as a double vector and has a single attribute: the timezone (tzone). Its value represents the count of seconds since the Unix epoch (a negative value if it represents an instant prior to the epoch). This implementation coincides with that of POSIXct class, except that POSIXct may not have tzone attribute. But for jdatetime, tzone is not optional.

Value

A vector of jdatetime objects.

Examples

## default time zone and format
jdatetime("1402-09-20 18:57:09")
jdatetime("1402/09/20 18:57:09", tzone = "UTC", format = "%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S")
## Will replace invalid format with NA
jdatetime("1402/09/20 18:57:09", format = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
## nonexistent time will be replaced with NA
jdatetime("1401-01-02 00:30:00", tzone = "Asia/Tehran")
## ambiguous time will be replaced with NA
jdatetime("1401-06-30 23:30:00", tzone = "Asia/Tehran", ambiguous = "NA")
## ambiguous time will resolve by choosing the later time instant
jdatetime("1401-06-30 23:30:00", tzone = "Asia/Tehran", ambiguous = "latest")
## Jalali date-time in Iran time zone, corresponding to Unix epoch
jdatetime(0, "Iran")