R: Create a Date-Time Object

stri_datetime_create {stringi} | R Documentation

## Create a Date-Time Object

### Description

Constructs date-time objects from numeric representations.

### Usage

    stri_datetime_create(
      year,
      month,
      day,
      hour = 12L,
      minute = 0L,
      second = 0,
      lenient = FALSE,
      tz = NULL,
      locale = NULL
    )

### Arguments

`year` | integer vector; 0 is 1BC, -1 is 2BC, etc.
`month` | integer vector; months are 1-based
`day` | integer vector
`hour` | integer vector
`minute` | integer vector
`second` | numeric vector; fractional seconds are allowed
`lenient` | single logical value; should the operation be lenient?
`tz` | `NULL` or `""` for the default time zone or a single string with time zone identifier, see `stri_timezone_list`
`locale` | `NULL` or `""` for default locale, or a single string with locale identifier; a non-Gregorian calendar may be specified by setting `@calendar=name` keyword

### Details

Vectorized over `year`, `month`, `day`, `hour`, `hour`, `minute`, and `second`.

### Value

Returns an object of class `POSIXct`.

### See Also

Other datetime: `stri_datetime_add()`, `stri_datetime_fields()`, `stri_datetime_format()`, `stri_datetime_fstr()`, `stri_datetime_now()`, `stri_datetime_symbols()`, `stri_timezone_get()`, `stri_timezone_info()`, `stri_timezone_list()`

### Examples

    stri_datetime_create(2015, 12, 31, 23, 59, 59.999)
    stri_datetime_create(5775, 8, 1, locale="@calendar=hebrew") # 1 Nisan 5775 -> 2015-03-21
    stri_datetime_create(2015, 02, 29)
    stri_datetime_create(2015, 02, 29, lenient=TRUE)

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