Sys.time {base}

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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()

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