[R] Problems with as.POSIXct

[William Dunlap]

Didn't Columbia switch to a year of daylight
savings time at what would have been midnight
May 3, 1992 (so midnight did not exist that day)?

Bill Dunlap
Spotfire, TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com 

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> Subject: [R] Problems with as.POSIXct
> 
> Hi R users:
> 
> This is a very strange problem:
> 
> Why this instruction shows me NA?,
> and any other date shows me that error!
> 
> as.POSIXct(strptime("1992-5-3",format="%Y-%m-%d"))
> 
> This is my R version on windows 7.
> "R version 2.13.1 Patched (2011-08-25 r56794)"
> 
> Thank you for your help.
> 
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