[R] ISOdate returns incorrect date?

[Heiko Schaefer]

Does this really work for you? I still get:
> ISOdate(1900,6,16)
[1] "1900-06-15 14:00:00 Westeuropäische Sommerzeit"
> ISOdate(1900,6,16,tz="")
[1] "1900-06-15 12:00:00 Westeuropäische Sommerzeit"

Obviously the time son influences the time, but it can
Not possibly account for the difference of a full day?!

Still puzzled...

Heiko


-----Original Message-----
From: Gabor Grothendieck [mailto:ggrothendieck at myway.com] 
Sent: Mittwoch, 19. November 2003 17:06
To: heiko.schaefer at swissrisk.com; r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: RE: [R] ISOdate returns incorrect date?





ISOdate works, by default, in the GMT timezone. Try:



ISOdate(1900,6,16,tz="")

ISOdate(1950,6,16,tz="")



If you don't need timezones and don't want to worry about them

you can alternately use the chron library for your dates and 

times.



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Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 14:58:24 +0100 

From: Heiko Schaefer <heiko.schaefer at swissrisk.com>

To: <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch> 

Subject: [R] ISOdate returns incorrect date? 



 

 



Dear all,



I have found the following (for me) incomprehensible behaviour of

ISOdate (POSIXct):

> ISOdate(1900,6,16)

[1] "1900-06-15 14:00:00 Westeuropäische Sommerzeit"

> ISOdate(1950,6,16)

[1] "1950-06-16 14:00:00 Westeuropäische Sommerzeit"



Note that in the first case I get the 15th of June back, not the 16th as

I would have expected!

This happened under R-1.7.1 on both windows and linux.



I would greatly appreciate your comments,



Heiko



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