just yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss but not AEST suffix

[genghiskhanofnz]

just yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss but not AEST suffix

[eddelbuettel]

I do not follow. Is your request about the different between the time and date parsers? Can you show an input element or two?

If you are concerned how a date, when parsed as a time, get the local timezone added then you can use the tz arguments.

> library(anytime)
> anytime("2021-07-16")
[1] "2021-07-16 EDT"                                 
> anydate("2021-07-16")
[1] "2021-07-16"
> utcdate("2021-07-16")
[1] "2021-07-16"
> utctime("2021-07-16")
[1] "2021-07-15 20:00:00 EDT"
> Sys.getenv("TZ")
[1] ""
> 

(This is in a machine without explicit TZ but currently in Eastern Daylight Time.)

Note that the printed display is done by R itself for the object we create, either a Date or a POSIXct and prints the latter with, and the former without, a timezone display. But that is just pretty-printing and has no influence on parsing.

[eddelbuettel]

Also:

> tt <- anytime("2021-07-16 10:11:12")
> class(tt)
[1] "POSIXct" "POSIXt" 
> format(tt)
[1] "2021-07-16 10:11:12"
> print(tt)
[1] "2021-07-16 10:11:12 EDT"
> 

So if instead of relying on the default print() method you override your own, even using format(), or even just use format() to create strings, you should get what you desire.

Does that answer your question?

[genghiskhanofnz]

@eddelbuettel = i will try format() on Monday when I go back to work. Will get back to you on the outcome. Appreciated your time and effort in this very quick response.

[eddelbuettel]

Another one, by the way, is just to format yourself -- the parse object is a POSIXTct so you can also do:

 > now <- Sys.time()    # use your anytime() parsed object here                                                                                                                                          
 > cat("It is now", strftime(now, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"), "and we like it without the TZ\n")                                                                    
 It is now 2021-07-16 17:25:29 and we like it without the TZ                                                                                                  
 >  

As none of this is a problem in anytime, I will close. Please feel free to reopen if you think you have an issue.

[genghiskhanofnz]

Thanks. I will try this @eddelbuettel