[R] Daylight Savings Time unknown in R-2.2.1

[Prof Brian Ripley]

POSIX does not require strptime() to set the timezone.  This changed in 
2.2.1 as part of

     o	ISODateTime() mistakenly corrected non-existent times (when
 	DST was being started) in the current time zone.

You can get the isdst by doing a conversion, e.g.

> x <- strptime(20051208, "%Y%m%d")
> x
[1] "2005-12-08"
> as.POSIXlt(as.POSIXct(x))
[1] "2005-12-08 GMT"
> as.POSIXlt(as.POSIXct(x))$isdst
[1] 0

It's easy to set it again, and I will do so in 2.2.1 patched.


On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Brahm, David wrote:

> Under R-2.2.1, a POSIXlt date created with "strptime" has an unknown
> Daylight Savings Time flag:
>
>> strptime(20051208, "%Y%m%d")$isdst
> [1] -1
>
> This is true on both Linux (details below) and Windows.  It did not
> occur under R-2.1.0.  Any ideas?  TIA!
>
>
>> Sys.getenv("TZ")
> TZ
> ""
>
> Version:
> platform = i686-pc-linux-gnu
> arch = i686
> os = linux-gnu
> system = i686, linux-gnu
> status =
> major = 2
> minor = 2.1
> year = 2005
> month = 12
> day = 20
> svn rev = 36812
> language = R
>
> Locale:
> C
>
> Search Path:
> .GlobalEnv, package:methods, package:stats, package:graphics,
> package:grDevices, package:utils, package:datasets, Autoloads,
> package:base
>
> -- David Brahm (brahm at alum.mit.edu)
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