Times Around Clock Change in Central Europe — timesAroundClockChange • kwb.datetime

Sequence of Times Around Clock Change in Central Europe

timesAroundClockChange(
  year = 2000,
  normalToSummer = TRUE,
  step_s = 1800,
  length.out = 5
)

Arguments

year	year for which to demonstrate the switch between Central European Time (CET) and Central European Summer Time (CEST)
normalToSummer	`TRUE`: CET to CEST, `FALSE`: CEST to CET
step_s	time step in seconds
length.out	number of time objects in returned vector

Value

vector of POSIXct objects with length length.out

Examples

timesAroundClockChange(2019, normalToSummer = TRUE)
#> [1] "2019-03-31 01:00:00 CET"  "2019-03-31 01:30:00 CET" 
#> [3] "2019-03-31 03:00:00 CEST" "2019-03-31 03:30:00 CEST"
#> [5] "2019-03-31 04:00:00 CEST"
timesAroundClockChange(2019, normalToSummer = FALSE)
#> [1] "2019-10-27 02:00:00 CEST" "2019-10-27 02:30:00 CEST"
#> [3] "2019-10-27 02:00:00 CET"  "2019-10-27 02:30:00 CET" 
#> [5] "2019-10-27 03:00:00 CET" 
timesAroundClockChange(2019, TRUE, step_s = 1, length.out = 3)
#> [1] "2019-03-31 01:59:59 CET"  "2019-03-31 03:00:00 CEST"
#> [3] "2019-03-31 03:00:01 CEST"
timesAroundClockChange(2019, FALSE, step_s = 1, length.out = 3)
#> [1] "2019-10-27 02:59:59 CEST" "2019-10-27 02:00:00 CET" 
#> [3] "2019-10-27 02:00:01 CET"