The time zone disappears at the exit to system time R

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The time zone disappears at the exit to system time R

I am trying to output the system date and time to a text file. When I do this, the time zone will disappear. The following is an example:

> Sys.time()
[1] "2012-05-24 09:58:38 CDT"
> currentTime <- Sys.time()
> currentTime
[1] "2012-05-24 09:58:49 CDT"
> cat(as.character(currentTime), sep = "\n")
2012-05-24 09:58:49

What happened to the time zone and how to get it back?

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Jdub May 24, '12 at 15:15

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joran · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-24T15:23:47+0000

Try this instead:

cat(format(Sys.time(),usetz = TRUE))

The print method for POSIXct objects calls formatwith usetz = TRUE, so you see the time zone in the console (the print method is called backstage).

The time zone disappears at the exit to system time R

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