Convert POSIXct date-time to CF-style date-time

Convert POSIXct date-time to CF-style date-time

datetime2cf(datetime, unit, ...)

Arguments

datetime

POSIXct datetime, or object that can be to POSIXct via as.POSIXct

unit

Target CF-style unit (e.g. "days since 2010-01-01")

...

Additional arguments to as.POSIXct. A common one is tz for time-zone (e.g. tz = "UTC").

Value

Numeric value of date-time in target CF unit

Examples

datetime2cf("1990-10-05", "days since 1990-01-01", tz = "UTC")
#> [1] 277