lubridate-posixct-wildness.R

x <- lubridate::today()
x
#> [1] "2021-04-12"

# not what i wanted...
# (treats the Date as UTC, then shows it to you in your local tz)
as.POSIXct(x)
#> [1] "2021-04-11 20:00:00 EDT"

# probably what you wanted:
lubridate::force_tz(x, "America/New_York")
#> [1] "2021-04-12 EDT"
lubridate::force_tz(x, "Europe/London")
#> [1] "2021-04-12 BST"

This would also be a great time to try clock 😝

x <- lubridate::today()
x
#> [1] "2021-04-12"

clock::as_date_time(x, "America/New_York")
#> [1] "2021-04-12 EDT"
clock::as_date_time(x, "Europe/London")
#> [1] "2021-04-12 BST"

^{Created on 2021-04-12 by the reprex package (v1.0.0)}