R: Get/set months component of a date-time

month {lubridate} | R Documentation

## Get/set months component of a date-time

### Description

Date-time must be a POSIXct, POSIXlt, Date, Period, chron, yearmon, yearqtr, zoo, zooreg, timeDate, xts, its, ti, jul, timeSeries, and fts objects.

### Usage

    month(x, label = FALSE, abbr = TRUE, locale = Sys.getlocale("LC_TIME"))

    month(x) <- value

### Arguments

`x` | a date-time object
`label` | logical. TRUE will display the month as a character string such as "January." FALSE will display the month as a number.
`abbr` | logical. FALSE will display the month as a character string label, such as "January". TRUE will display an abbreviated version of the label, such as "Jan". abbr is disregarded if label = FALSE.
`locale` | for month, locale to use for month names. Default to current locale.
`value` | a numeric object

### Value

the months element of x as a number (1-12) or character string. 1 = January.

### Examples

    x <- ymd("2012-03-26")
    month(x)
    month(x) <- 1
    month(x) <- 13
    month(x) > 3

    month(ymd(080101))
    month(ymd(080101), label = TRUE)
    month(ymd(080101), label = TRUE, abbr = FALSE)
    month(ymd(080101) + months(0:11), label = TRUE)

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