Dear Gabor

http://rwiki.sciviews.org/doku.php?id=tips:data-io:ms_windows&s=excel
doesnt describe handling dates with daylight saving time issues.

R classes Date can remove time and timezone, however calculating days
difference between two manipulated variables same problem appear if handling
these without Dates.

R News 4/1 doesnt provide solution to this neither.

Have read and struggled with this stuff for 3 days.

Anyone else who could help on this?

Regards,Laura.


2011/7/12 Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck@gmail.com>

> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 6:58 AM, B Laura <gm.spam2011@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Could someone help me with the time zones in understandable & practical
> way?
> > I got completely stucked with this.
> >
> > Have googled for a while and read the manuals, but without solutions...
> >
> >
> >
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > When data imported  from Excel 2007 into R (2.13)
> >
> > all time variables, depending on date (summer or winter) get (un-asked
> for
> > it!) a time zone addition CEST (for summer dates) or CET (for winter
> dates).
> >
>
> Read
> http://rwiki.sciviews.org/doku.php?id=tips:data-io:ms_windows&s=excel
> which gives many ways of reading Excel into R and read R News 4/1
> which discusses appropriate R classes to use (you would b best to use
> Date, not POSIXct, in which case you could not have time zone problems
> in the first place) and internal representations of R vs. Excel.
>
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