Changing time zone of XTS object

Question

I have an data object with

index(x)
[6217] "2014-09-03 GMT" "2014-09-04 GMT" "2014-09-05 GMT" "2014-09-08 GMT" "2014-09-09 GMT" "2014-09-10 GMT" "2014-09-11 GMT"
[6224] "2014-09-12 GMT"

What can I do to change the objects time zone to "CDT"? Is there a function to do this?

score 11 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 20 '14 at 01:16

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With indexTZ<-

indexTZ(x) <- "America/Chicago"

answered Sep 20 '14 at 01:16

GSee

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is there a way to take out the time component? I have `"2014-09-11 19:00:00 CDT"` I just want `"2014-09-11 CDT"` – user1234440 Sep 20 '14 at 02:21
@user1234440: if you don't care about the time, then why do you care about the timezone? – Joshua Ulrich Sep 20 '14 at 02:28
im comparing two objects and I need to standardize them. the other object I am comparing to looks like `"2014-09-11 CDT"`. – user1234440 Sep 20 '14 at 02:33
@user1234440 If you really want to do that, here is one way. `gsub("\\s.*\\s", " ", x)` – jazzurro Sep 20 '14 at 02:33
or even `format(index(x), "%F %Z")` if converting to character is really desired. I'm not clear on what the actual use case is here. – GSee Sep 20 '14 at 03:06
Why not just use `as.Date()`? – drenerbas Aug 03 '16 at 20:24
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@drenerbas because dates don't have timezones and user1234440 asked for a string that includes "CDT" – GSee Aug 06 '16 at 22:59

Changing time zone of XTS object

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