Thanks to Jerome Asselin (jerome at hivnet.ubc.ca) and 
Patrick Connolly (p.connolly at hortresearch.co.nz) for your
work on this problem.  We collectively were able to find
two bugs, made easier by using our three different machines
over 3 different time zones.  See the following for details:

https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2003-August/027165.html

https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2003-August/027166.html

Strategies for avoiding or partially avoiding timezone problems
include the use of the chron package or the use of GMT for everything.


