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Formatting of date

Source: R/utils.R
format_date.Rd

Formatting of date

Usage 

format_date(date_format = "%d%b%Y")

Arguments

date_format

(string) the output format.

Value

a function converting a date into string.

Note

The date is extracted at the location of the measure, not at the location of the system.

Examples 

format_date("%d%b%Y")(as.Date("2021-01-01"))
#> [1] "01JAN2021"
if ("NZ" %in% OlsonNames()) {
  format_date("%d%b%Y")(as.POSIXct("2021-01-01 00:00:01", tz = "NZ"))
}
#> [1] "01JAN2021"
if ("US/Pacific" %in% OlsonNames()) {
  format_date("%d%b%Y")(as.POSIXct("2021-01-01 00:00:01", tz = "US/Pacific"))
}
#> [1] "01JAN2021"