Simplest way to extract date from 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 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.

Accepted Answer

This would probably be the simplest way:

```
date(timestamp)
```

It will return a date class and not a string.

Simplest way to extract date from timestamp

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