CODEWITHSUNDEEP
rlinuxdatetime
Praveen Kesani
Praveen Kesani

Reputation: 178

Get timezone in R from Linux server

I'm facing problem to get timezone of Linux server from R code. See code below, what I was given is:

Sys.time()

[1] "2016-03-18 11:20:11 IST"

Sys.timezone()

[1] NA

In the above situation I got timezone including with date and time, when I was given Sys.time(). But individually I couldn't get timezone.

I want timezone of Linux server with out setting timezone. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 179

Answers (1)

RHertel
RHertel

Reputation: 23788

There seems to be a problem sometimes with Sys.timezone(). The result depends on settings of the system, and the OS may run on a different locale than R. In any case, I obtain the same NA result on my Linux machine.

As a workaround, try

format(Sys.time(), format="%Z")

or

as.POSIXlt(Sys.time())$zone

Upvotes: 2

Related Questions