Generate a TSSID — generate

A TSSID is a Timestamped Source Identifier. It is a practically unique identifier for a source, conventionally the time and date the source was produced (e.g. when the data were collected, for example the time and date of an interview) in the UTC timezone and in ISO 8601 standard format.

Usage

generate_tssid(x = Sys.time(), addDelimiters = FALSE, designationSymbol = "=")

Arguments

x: The date and time to use.
addDelimiters: If TRUE, add the delimiters (by default, [[ and ]]).
designationSymbol: The symbol to use to designate an instance identifier for a class (can be "=" or ":" as per the ROCK standard).

Value

The tssid

Examples

rock::generate_tssid();
#> [1] "20250616T2055Z"