chronos {timeless}

Fast general purpose parser for date(time) from input data

Description

Fast general purpose parser for date(time) from input data

Usage

chronos(x, formats = NULL, tz = "", to_tz = "", out_format = "datetime")

Arguments

x

A vector with date(time) expressions to be parsed and converted.

formats

character vector of formats to try out (see base::strptime). If NULL, uses a set of predefined formats mostly taken from the anytime package.

tz

assumed input timezone. If "", uses local timezone. See details

to_tz

convert datetime to timezone given in to_tz. If "", tz is used. See details

out_format

character. Defining the format of the returned result. Can be "datetime", "date", or "character".

Details

The internal parsing is done "timezoneless". The timezone given in tz is just added to the datetime without any conversion. If to_tz is given, a conversion is made from tz to to_tz.

Value

A character vector which can be transformed to POSIXct or date

See Also

parse_datetime, parse_date, and parse_epoch if you need more control over formatting

Examples

chronos(bench_date)