R quantmod: Timezone in xts object

Question

I am using getSymbols function from quantmod library in R to download data from yahoo finance . Could anyone explain to me why the time zone of the returned xts data is UTC while yahoo page is showing JST? Please see code below and the highlighted part in the image.

> library(quantmod)
> dat=getSymbols("2975.T", adjust=F,auto.assign = FALSE,from="1900-01-01")
> tzone(dat)
[1] "UTC"

Answer 1

As mentioned in comments, a Date doesn't have a timezone, but you could use lubridate , which sets timezone for a Date to UTC :

lubridate::tz(Sys.Date())
[1] "UTC"

You could then use with_tz to convert back to JST :

lubridate::with_tz(index(dat),"Japan")
  [1] "2019-06-03 09:00:00 JST" "2019-06-04 09:00:00 JST" "2019-06-05 09:00:00 JST" "2019-06-06 09:00:00 JST"
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