[R] as.Date question

[Marek Janad]

Look at documentation

?as.Date

as.Date first represents time in UTC, what gives:

as.POSIXlt(zzz1, tz="UTC")

HTH

2009/12/20 MAL <diverses at univecom.ch>:
> All!
>
> This piece of code:
>
> zzz1 <- as.POSIXct("1999-03-18", tz="CET")
> zzz2 <- as.POSIXlt("1999-03-18", tz="CET")
> zzz1 == zzz2
> as.Date(zzz1)
> as.Date(zzz2)
>
> yields TRUE for "zzz1==zzz2", but the two dates returned by as.Date are
> different:
>
>> as.Date(zzz1)
>
> [1] "1999-03-17"
>>
>> as.Date(zzz2)
>
> [1] "1999-03-18"
>
> I'm using R 2.10.0.
>
> Would be glad for any clarifications. Thanks!
>
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Marek