R: The current date

today {lubridate} | R Documentation

## The current date

### Description

The current date

### Usage

    today(tzone = "")

### Arguments

`tzone` | a character vector specifying which time zone you would like to find the current date of. tzone defaults to the system time zone set on your computer.

### Value

the current date as a Date object

### Examples

    today()
    today("GMT")
    today() == today("GMT") # not always true
    today() < as.Date("2999-01-01") # TRUE  (so far)

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