Get timezone abbreviation

Returns the timezone abbreviation (e.g., "EST", "PDT") for a given datetime in its specified timezone.

Usage

tz_abbreviation(x)

Arguments

x

A POSIXct datetime object or something coercible to POSIXct. The timezone is extracted from this object.

Value

A character vector of timezone abbreviations.

Examples

tz_abbreviation(Sys.time())
#> [1] "UTC"
tz_abbreviation(as.POSIXct("2024-01-15 12:00:00", tz = "America/New_York"))
#> [1] "EST"