Converts timestamps from radar time zone to an user-defined time zone

Converts timestamps from radar time zone to an user-defined time zone

Usage

convertTimeZone(
  data = NULL,
  colNames = "",
  originTZ = "Etc/GMT0",
  targetTZ = "Etc/GMT0"
)

Arguments

data

a data frame containing BirdScan data

colNames

a character vector containing valid column names, as present in data

originTZ

character, the time zone name of data to be converted (default is "etc/GMT0")

targetTZ

character, the time zone name to convert data into (default is "etc/GMT0")

Value

a data frame identical to data, any columns declared in colNames will have their name changed with a suffix (_originTZ or _targetTZ) added.

See also

Other manipulation functions: addDayNightInfoPerEcho(), computeDensity(), computeMTR(), createVPTS(), filterSpeedFeature37(), mergeVisibilityAndManualBlindTimes(), reclassToBats(), twilight()

Author

Fabian Hertner, Birgen Haest

Examples

# \donttest{
# Load example data
# ===========================================================================
dbData = readRDS(system.file("extdata",
  "CH_Sempach_2024_SEP24_25_DataExtract.rds",
  package = "birdscanR"
))

# Add day/night info to echo data
# ===========================================================================
echoData = convertTimeZone(
  data     = dbData$echoData,
  colNames = c("time_stamp"),
  originTZ = "Etc/GMT0",
  targetTZ = "Etc/GMT-2"
)
#> Warning: no data to convert to time zone (function: convertTimeZone)
# }