[Rd] terribly annoying bug with POSIXlt : one o'clock is midnight?

[Jeff Ryan]

Much of TZ-hell (I almost dare say all) has been sorted through in xts.

  http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/xts/index.html

Peruse the sources for inspiration or just take some comfort in that
you are not the only one ;-)

Jeff

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Joris Meys <jorismeys at gmail.com> wrote:
> Been too fast : I am in Central European Time (GMT +1), which explains
> the time conversion. Still, I find it highly annoying that as.POSIXlt
> assumes that the time is given in GMT and has to be converted to
> whatever timezone you're in if you don't specify anything.
>
> Probably this behaviour is not going to be changed, but it's causing
> very hard-to-track-down bugs nonetheless.
>
> Cheers
> Joris
>
> On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Joris Meys <jorismeys at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Apparently, as.POSIXlt takes one o'clock as the start of the day :
>>
>>> as.POSIXlt(0,origin="1970-01-01")
>> [1] "1970-01-01 01:00:00 CET"
>>> as.POSIXlt(0,origin="1970-01-01 00:00:00")
>> [1] "1970-01-01 01:00:00 CET"
>>> as.POSIXlt(0,origin="1970-01-01 23:59:59")
>> [1] "1970-01-02 00:59:59 CET"
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Joris Meys
>> Statistical consultant
>>
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>> Faculty of Bioscience Engineering
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>>
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>
>
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>
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>
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