Why is timezone converted when putting date-time into vector in R?

Asked May 25 '18 at 20:12

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Why is the timezone changed when putting a datetime value into a vector in R? (Using the lubridate package to create the datetime value)

lubridate::now(tz = "UTC")
#> "2018-05-25 20:11:16 UTC"

c(lubridate::now(tz = "UTC"))
#> "2018-05-25 16:11:16 EDT"

(I'm in the Eastern timezone)

asked May 25 '18 at 20:12

David Rubinger

See also `?c.POSIXct` and [c(a, b) for POSIXct objects with tzone attributes?](https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help//2012-July/317759.html) – Henrik May 25 '18 at 20:46

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