[R] timezone specification on windows machine

[David Winsemius]

On May 14, 2011, at 2:51 PM, Robert A'gata wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm wondering what's the right value for specifying "America/New_York"
> time zone on a windows machine? I got my code which specify this time
> zone on as.POSIXct function work properly with this value on a linux
> machine. But it keeps giving me complaint on windows. Thank you.

See what this give you:

as.POSIXlt((d <- Sys.time()), "EST5EDT")

>
> Cheers,
>
> Robert
>
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David Winsemius, MD
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