[R] julian.default on Windows (was years from as.POSIXlt)

[Thomas Petzoldt]

Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> 
> Ok, I set my machine to CET and I get the problem.  It is indeed a
> Microsoft bug: it seems its mktime can only regards as valid times after
> 1970-01-01 00:00:00 GMT (and not after that time in the current timezone).  
> Hence R's strptime has trouble in the period of 1970 when CMT was in 1969.  
> That's pretty esoteric!

Really!

> Fixed now in R-devel.

Thank you very much. It was my intention to point out that there was 
really a problem with some platforms, not that I have this problem. As 
we know and as was discussed earlier there are also several workarounds.

Thomas P.