Sys.time                package:base                R Documentation

Get Current Time and Timezone

Description:

     `Sys.time' returns the system's idea of the current time and
     `Sys.timezone' returns the current time zone.

Usage:

     Sys.time()
     Sys.timezone()

Value:

     `Sys.time' returns an object of class `"POSIXct"' (see
     DateTimeClasses).

     `Sys.timezone' returns an OS-specific character string, possibly
     an empty string.

See Also:

     `date' for the system time in a fixed-format character string.

Examples:

     Sys.time()
     ## locale-specific version of date()
     format(Sys.time(), "%a %b %d %X %Y")

     Sys.timezone()

