now {toscutil}

Get Current Date and Time as String

Description

Returns the current system time as a string in the format ⁠YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss[.XX][ TZ]⁠. Square brackets indicate optional parts of the string, 'XX' stands for milliseconds and 'TZ' for 'Timezone'.

Usage

now(usetz = TRUE, color = NULL, digits.sec = 0)

now_ms(usetz = TRUE, color = NULL, digits.sec = 2)

Arguments

usetz

Logical, indicating whether to include the timezone in the output.

color

Optional color to use for the timestamp. This parameter is only effective if the output is directed to a terminal that supports color, which is checked via isatty(stdout()).

digits.sec

Integer, the number of digits to include for seconds. Default is 0.

Value

For now, the current system time as a string in the format ⁠YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss TZ⁠. For now_ms, the format is ⁠YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss.XX TZ⁠, where XX represents milliseconds.

See Also

Sys.time(), format.POSIXct()

Examples

now()                   # "2021-11-27 19:19:31 CEST"
now_ms()                # "2022-06-30 07:14:26.82 CEST"
now(usetz = FALSE)      # "2022-06-30 07:14:26.82"
now(color = fg$GREY)    # "\033[1;30m2024-06-27 14:41:20 CEST\033[0m"