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 \name{Sys.time}
 \alias{Sys.time}
+\alias{Sys.Date}
 \alias{Sys.timezone}
-\title{Get Current Time and Timezone}
+\title{Get Current Date, Time and Timezone}
 \description{
-  \code{Sys.time} returns the system's idea of the current time and
+  \code{Sys.time} and \code{Sys.Date} returns the system's idea of the
+  current date with and without time, and \code{Sys.timezone} returns
-  \code{Sys.timezone} returns the current time zone.
+  the current time zone.
+}
 \usage{
 Sys.time()
+Sys.Date()
 Sys.timezone()
+}
+\details{
+  \code{Sys.time} returns an absolute date-time value which can be
+  converted in various time zones and may return different days.
+  \code{Sys.Date} returns the day in the current timezone.
+}
 \value{
   \code{Sys.time} returns an object of class \code{"POSIXct"} (see
   \link{DateTimeClasses}).
+  \code{Sys.Date} returns an object of class \code{"Date"} (see \link{Date}).
   \code{Sys.timezone} returns an OS-specific character string, possibly
   an empty string.
+}
 \seealso{
   \code{\link{date}} for the system time in a fixed-format character
 \examples{
 Sys.time()
 ## locale-specific version of date()
 format(Sys.time(), "\%a \%b \%d \%X \%Y")
+Sys.Date()
 Sys.timezone()
+}
 \keyword{utilities}
 \keyword{chron}

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