Timezones in the weather data

Did you ever notice that in the hourly Auckland weather data there was another datetime column, date_utc? Take a look:

tibble::glimpse(akl_hourly)

The datetime column you created represented local time in Auckland, NZ. I suspect this additional column, date_utc represents the observation time in UTC (the name seems a big clue). But does it really?

Use your new timezone skills to find out.

The data is available in the akl_hourly data frame.

What timezone are datetime and date_utc currently in? Examine the head of the datetime and date_utc columns to find out.
Fix datetime to have the timezone for "Pacific/Auckland".
Reexamine the head of the datetime column to check the times have the same clocktime, but are now in the right timezone.
Now tabulate up the difference between the datetime and date_utc columns. It should be zero if our hypothesis was correct.

Take Hint (-30 XP)

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Timezones in the weather data

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