| Sys.time {base} | R Documentation |
Sys.time and Sys.Date returns the system's idea of the
current date with and without time.
Sys.time() Sys.Date()
Sys.time returns an absolute date-time value which can be
converted in various time zones and may return different days.
Sys.Date returns the day in the current timezone.
Sys.time returns an object of class "POSIXct" (see
DateTimeClasses). On some systems it will have sub-second
accuracy, but on others it will increment in seconds.
On Windows, it increments in clock ticks (1/60 of a second) reported
to millisecond accuracy.
Sys.Date returns an object of class "Date" (see Date).
date for the system time in a fixed-format character
string; the elapsed time component of proc.time
for possibly finer resolution in changes in time.
Sys.time() ## print with possibly greater accuracy: op <- options(digits.secs=6) Sys.time() options(op) ## locale-specific version of date() format(Sys.time(), "%a %b %d %X %Y") Sys.Date()