The easiest way to retrieve a date from a timestamp

Question

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 easiest way to get part of the day from him 2011-08-10and make sure that this day is the correct date, not a string?

Using lubridate::day(timestamp)here is clearly not working.

Answer 1

This will probably be the easiest way:

date(timestamp)

It will return a date class, not a string.

Answer 2

Use date instead of day

lubridate::date(timestamp)