Keep time zone information when converting POSIX object to string [duplicate]

Question

I'm trying to convert a POSIX object to a string in R by using

as.character(Sys.time()) which returns "2021-09-28 08:38:13"

However, if I just run Sys.time() I get "2021-09-28 08:38:13 CEST".

How do I get the time zone information to be converted to the string, too?

Answer 1

use option usetz = TRUE

as.character(Sys.time(), usetz = TRUE)