[R] Strptime/ date time classes

[Mark Difford]

Hi Caroline,

>> is.na(strptime("19810329012000",format="%Y%m%d%H%M%S"))
>> [1] TRUE

>> The problem was to do with daylight saving time.  I need to specify a
>> time zone as this time >> doesn't exist in my operating system's current
>> time zone.  I still think this is odd behaviour >> though!  When you look
>> at the missing object it doesn't look missing at all.  


This is just one reason why the posting guide asks you please to provide a
small, self-contained, reproducible example of the problem, along with
session information, which you never provided:

?sessionInfo
sessionInfo()

On my system, for instance, your example returns TRUE:

> is.na(strptime("19810329012000",format="%Y%m%d%H%M%S"))
[1] FALSE

> sessionInfo()
R version 2.7.1 Patched (2008-06-27 r46012) 
i386-pc-mingw32 

locale:
LC_COLLATE=English_South Africa.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_South
Africa.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_South
Africa.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_South Africa.1252

attached base packages:
[1] grid      splines   stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets 
methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] exactLoglinTest_1.3.6 vcd_1.0-8             colorspace_0.95      
MASS_7.2-42          
[5] Design_2.1-1          survival_2.34-1       Hmisc_3.4-3          

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] cluster_1.11.11 lattice_0.17-10 tools_2.7.1

Regards, Mark.


Caroline Keef-2 wrote:
> 
> 
> is.na(strptime("19810329012000",format="%Y%m%d%H%M%S"))
> [1] TRUE
> 
> The problem was to do with daylight saving time.  I need to specify a time
> zone as this time doesn't exist in my operating system's current time
> zone.  I still think this is odd behaviour though!  When you look at the
> missing object it doesn't look missing at all.  
> 
> Caroline
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