[R] POSIX time zone codes

Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Tue Mar 7 15:00:11 CET 2006


Only "" and "GMT" are really guaranteed to work on all systems
since the time zones are system dependent but try: "CDT6CST"
and see if that works on your system.


On 3/7/06, Jason Horn <jhorn at bu.edu> wrote:
> Whoops,
>
> [EDIT]
>
> as.POSIX(x, tz="UTC")  ... works, gives UTC times
> as.POSIX(x, tz="EST")  ... works, gives EST times
>
> as.POSIX(x, tz="CST")  ... does NOT work, gives UTC times
>
> [/EDIT]
>
> On Mar 7, 2006, at 8:05 AM, Jason Horn wrote:
>
> > as.POSIX(x, tz="UTC")  ... works, gives UTC times
> > as.POSIX(x, tz="UTC")  ... works, gives EST times
> >
> > as.POSIX(x, tz="CST")  ... does NOT work, gives UTC times
>
>
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