Conveniences

Here are a few simple timesavers, DateTime work-alikes. ndnow(LOCAL), ndnow(UTC) are similar to now(), now(UTC), with support for microseconds and nanoseconds.

# ndnow(LOCAL), ndnow(UTC) work like now(), now(UTC)

now(UTC)                     # 1 millisecond resolution
# 2022-06-18T12:15:30.123

ndnow(LOCAL)                 # 100 nanosecond resolution (ymmv)
# 2022-06-18T12:15:30.123456700

ndnow(UTC, Microsecond(321), Nanosecond(0))
# 2022-06-18T12:15:30.123321

ndnow(LOCAL, Microsecond(321), Nanosecond(555))
# 2022-06-18T12:15:30.12332555

ndtoday(UTC) and ndtoday(LOCAL) are provided. They work like today(), adding UTC, LOCAL.

ndtoday(UTC), ndtoday(LOCAL)
# 2022-04-26, 2022-04-25