stri_timezone_info: 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:

ID (time zone identifier),
Name (localized human-readable time zone name),
Name.Daylight (localized human-readable time zone name when DST is used, if available),
Name.Windows (Windows time zone ID, if available),
RawOffset (raw GMT offset, in hours, before taking daylight savings into account), and
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))