Extract the hour from a date or datetime

rip_hour() extracts the hour from a date or datetime object.

rip_hour(x)

Arguments

x	<Date / POSIXct / POSIXlt> The vector to extract the hour from.

Value

An integer vector the same size as x containing the hours.

Examples

# Identical dates, but in different hours
x <- as.POSIXct("1969-12-31 19:00:00", tz = "America/New_York")
y <- as.POSIXct("1970-01-01 00:00:00", tz = "UTC")

identical(as.numeric(x), as.numeric(y))
#> [1] TRUE

rip_hour(x)
#> [1] 19
rip_hour(y)
#> [1] 0