Get timezone abbreviation — tz_abbreviation • mixtime

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

Usage

tz_abbreviation(x, tz = tz_name(x))

Arguments

x: A POSIXct datetime object or something coercible to POSIXct. The timezone is extracted from this object.
tz: A character vector of timezones to abbreviate at time point x.

Value

A character vector of timezone abbreviations.

Examples

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