R: Current date and date-time

date-today {clock} | R Documentation

## Current date and date-time

### Description

- `date_today()` returns the current date in the specified `zone` as a Date.

- `date_now()` returns the current date-time in the specified `zone` as a POSIXct.

### Usage

    date_today(zone)

    date_now(zone)

### Arguments

`zone` | `[character(1)]` A time zone to get the current time for.

### Details

clock assumes that Date is a naive type, like naive-time. This means that `date_today()` first looks up the current date-time in the specified `zone`, then converts that to a Date, retaining the printed time while dropping any information about that time zone.

### Value

- `date_today()` a single Date.

- `date_now()` a single POSIXct.

### Examples

    # Current date in the local time zone
    date_today("")

    # Current date in a specified time zone
    date_today("Europe/London")

    # Current date-time in that same time zone
    date_now("Europe/London")

[Package clock version 0.6.0 Index]