Format a datetime for DFP

Take a datetime representation in R and convert it to the list required by DFP to indicate a datetime

dfp_date_to_list(this_date, daytime = c("beginning", "end"),
  timeZoneId = Sys.timezone(), ensure_today_works = TRUE)

Arguments

this_date	Date; formatted as Date, POSIXct, or POSIXlt
daytime	character; either "beginning" or "end" so that the function knows which hours to set if needed
timeZoneId	character; a string indicating the timezone that should be used. The timezone ID must be in Time_Zone database
ensure_today_works	logical; an indicator that will automatically offset the current time by 1 hour so that forecasts will actually work. If you try to forecast from a timestamp of now, then by the time you submit it to the ForecastService it will already be too late to be in the future.

Value

a list formatted to the spec required for StartDateTime or EndDateTime

Examples

dfp_date_to_list(Sys.Date()+1)
#> The date provided is not at least 1 hour into the future. Setting to one hour after now.
#> $date
#> $date$year
#> [1] 2019
#> 
#> $date$month
#> [1] 6
#> 
#> $date$day
#> [1] 5
#> 
#> 
#> $hour
#> [1] 20
#> 
#> $minute
#> [1] 51
#> 
#> $second
#> [1] 45
#> 
#> $timeZoneId
#> [1] "America/New_York"
#>