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

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# Set server, database, and other input settings for data extraction
# ===========================================================================
dbServer = "MACHINE\\SERVERNAME" # Set the name of your SQL server
dbName = "db_Name" # Set the name of your database
dbDriverChar = "SQL Server" # Set either "SQL Server" or "PostgreSQL"
mainOutputDir = file.path(".", "results")
radarTimeZone = "Etc/GMT0"
targetTimeZone = "Etc/GMT0"
listOfRfFeaturesToExtract = c(167, 168)
siteLocation = c(47.494427, 8.716432)
sunOrCivil = "civil"

# Get data
# ===========================================================================
dbData = extractDbData(
  dbDriverChar = dbDriverChar,
  dbServer = dbServer,
  dbName = dbName,
  saveDbToFile = TRUE,
  dbDataDir = mainOutputDir,
  radarTimeZone = radarTimeZone,
  targetTimeZone = targetTimeZone,
  listOfRfFeaturesToExtract = listOfRfFeaturesToExtract,
  siteLocation = siteLocation,
  sunOrCivil = sunOrCivil
)

# Add day/night info to echo data
# ===========================================================================
echoData = convertTimeZone(
  data = dbData$echoData,
  colNames = c("time_stamp"),
  originTZ = "Etc/GMT0",
  targetTZ = "Etc/GMT-2"
)
} # }