Simplest way to extract date from timestamp
Consider the following timestamp
timestamp <- ymd_hms("2011-08-10 14:00:00", tz = "Pacific/Auckland")
> timestamp
[1] "2011-08-10 14:00:00 NZST"
What is the simplest way to get the day part 2011-08-10 from it, and making sure this day is a proper date and not a string?
Using lubridate::day(timestamp) obviously fails here.
Answer
This would probably be the simplest way:
date(timestamp)
It will return a date class and not a string.