R: Query a Given Time Zone

stri_timezone_info {stringi} | R Documentation

## Query a Given Time Zone

### Description

Provides some basic information on a given time zone identifier.

### Usage

    stri_timezone_info(tz = NULL, locale = NULL, display_type = "long")

### Arguments

`tz` | `NULL` or `""` for default time zone, or a single string with time zone ID otherwise
`locale` | `NULL` or `""` for default locale, or a single string with locale identifier
`display_type` | single string; one of `"short"`, `"long"`, `"generic_short"`, `"generic_long"`, `"gmt_short"`, `"gmt_long"`, `"common"`, `"generic_location"`

### Details

Used to fetch basic information on any supported time zone.

For more information on time zone representation in ICU, see `stri_timezone_list`.

### Value

Returns a list with the following named components:

1. `ID` (time zone identifier),

2. `Name` (localized human-readable time zone name),

3. `Name.Daylight` (localized human-readable time zone name when DST is used, if available),

4. `Name.Windows` (Windows time zone ID, if available),

5. `RawOffset` (raw GMT offset, in hours, before taking daylight savings into account), and

6. `UsesDaylightTime` (states whether a time zone uses daylight savings time in the current Gregorian calendar year).

### See Also

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

Other timezone: `stri_timezone_get()`, `stri_timezone_list()`

### Examples

    stri_timezone_info()
    stri_timezone_info(locale="sk_SK")
    sapply(c("short", "long", "generic_short", "generic_long",
             "gmt_short", "gmt_long", "common", "generic_location"),
      function(e) stri_timezone_info("Europe/London", display_type=e))

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