Modifying timezone of a POSIXct object without changing the display

Question

I have a POSIXct object and would like to change it\'s tz attribute WITHOUT R to interpret it (interpret it would mean to change how the datetime is di

Answer 1

To change the tz attribute of a POSIXct variable it is not best practice to convert to character or numeric and then back to POSIXct. Instead you could use the force_tz function of the lubridate package

library(lubridate)

datetime2 <- force_tz(datetime, tzone = "CET")
datetime2
attributes(datetime2)