Last data update: 2014.03.03

R: Get Daylight Savings Time indicator of a date-time.
dstR Documentation

Get Daylight Savings Time indicator of a date-time.

Description

Date-time must be a POSIXct, POSIXlt, Date, chron, yearmon, yearqtr, zoo, zooreg, timeDate, xts, its, ti, jul, timeSeries, and fts objects.

Usage

dst(x)

Arguments

x

a date-time object

Details

A date-time's daylight savings flag can not be set because it depends on the date-time's year, month, day, and hour values.

Value

A logical. TRUE if DST is in force, FALSE if not, NA if unknown.

Examples

x <- ymd("2012-03-26")
dst(x)

Results