| Sys.time {base} | R Documentation |
Get Current Time and Timezone
Description
Sys.time returns the system's idea of the current time and
Sys.timezone returns the current time zone.
Usage
Sys.time()
Sys.timezone()
Value
Sys.time returns an object of class "POSIXct" (see
DateTimeClasses).
Sys.timezone returns an OS-specific character string, possibly
an empty string.
See Also
date for the system time in a fixed-format character
string.
Examples
Sys.time()
## locale-specific version of date()
format(Sys.time(), "%a %b %d %X %Y")
Sys.timezone()