R: Formatting: date and date-time

date_format {clock} | R Documentation

## Formatting: date and date-time

### Description

`date_format()` formats a date (Date) or date-time (POSIXct/POSIXlt) using a `format` string.

There are separate help pages for formatting dates and date-times:

- dates (Date)

- date-times (POSIXct/POSIXlt)

### Usage

    date_format(x, ...)

### Arguments

`x` | `[Date / POSIXct / POSIXlt]` A date or date-time vector.
`...` | These dots are for future extensions and must be empty.

### Value

A character vector of the formatted input.

### Examples

    # See method specific documentation for more examples

    x <- as.Date("2019-01-01")
    date_format(x, format = "year: %Y, month: %m, day: %d")

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