[R] as.POSIXct problem?

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Frank E Harrell Jr <fharrell at virginia.edu> writes:

 
> I get NA for any day in 1969 or earlier.  Using a time other than midnight did not help.  So it's not a problem with time zone changes on a given day (thanks, Brian and Don for suggesting I look at that).
> 
> Doing as.POSIXlt works fine, but I want POSIXct variables for storage in data frames.
> 
> I am at a loss on how to proceed but thanks to all for the help.

Not much consolation, I know, but I can confirm this with RedHat 8.0.
Also:

> as.POSIXct(as.POSIXlt(ISOdate(1969,10,10)))
[1] NA

However, with SuSE and 1.6.0, I see

> as.POSIXct(as.POSIXlt(ISOdate(1969,10,10)))
[1] "1969-10-10 13:00:00 CET"

So it looks like a difference between glibc 2.2.5 and 2.2.93. Sigh...

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