Gets the time when the object was instantiated

Gets the time when the object was instantiated (created) as a POSIXt object.

# S3 method for class 'Object'
getInstantiationTime(this, ...)

Arguments

...

Not used.

Value

Returns a POSIXt object, which extends class POSIXct.

Details

The instantiation time stamp is set when the object is created, and only of option "R.oo::BasicObject/instantiationTime" is TRUE.

See also

For more about time formats and POSIX see DateTimeClasses. For more information see Object.

Author

Henrik Bengtsson

Examples

  oopts <- options("R.oo::Object/instantiationTime"=TRUE)
  obj <- Object()
  print(getInstantiationTime(obj))
#> NULL
  options(oopts)