[R] Convert time zone to difference from Coordinated

[Tim.Williams at ucb.com]

Thank you for your reply.  %z fits the bill perfectly.



Apologies for my breach of etiquette on my first post to the list.



-          Tim

R 3.1.1 on Windows 7 OS



From: Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>

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Subject: Re: [R] Convert time zone to difference from Coordinated

                Universal Time

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On 04/09/2014 02:27, Tim.Williams at ucb.com wrote:

> Hello everyone,

>

> I want to convert times provided by Sys.time()  to use  the difference from Coordinated Universal Time instead of the character abbreviation.

>

> For example, instead of:

> 2014-09-03 21:12:35 EDT

>

> I want the value as:

> 2004-09-03 13:20:00-04:00

>

> Is there a way to do this with strftime() ?



On some systems.  Although the posting guide required it, you did not

provide information on yours.



Please do read the help page for yourself -- %z is relevant.

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