Convert Wikipedia timezone table to dataframe

Source: R/convertWikipediaTimezoneTable.R

Returns a dataframe version of the Wikipedia timezone table with the following columns:

  • timezone -- Olson timezone

  • UTC_offset -- hours between local timezone and UTC

  • UTC_DST_offset -- hours between local timezone daylight savings and UTC

  • countryCode -- ISO 3166-2 country code

  • longitude -- longitude of the Olson timezone city

  • latitude -- latitude of the Olson timezone city

  • status -- either 'Canonical', 'Alias' or 'Deprecated'

  • notes -- typically specifying the target of an 'Alias'

convertWikipediaTimezoneTable()

Value

Dataframe with 388 rows and 10 columns.

Details

Older named timezones from the table which are linked to more modern equivalents are not included in the returned dataframe.