[R-sig-finance] its and TZ

Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at myway.com
Thu Dec 23 20:01:42 CET 2004



Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>
 
> My thanks to Whit for adopting its and releasing the 1.0.4 release. After
> upgrading, I noticed that I now seem to be falling into the TZ pit: intraday
> data read from a csv file "shows" the right time stamps when displayed.
> 
> However, when plotted, the axis is shifted back to UTC which is now imposed
> in a few places in the code. I tried to overcome this by explicitly setting
> a tz argument in readcsvIts, but no luck.
> 
> Anybody else bitten by this or similar intraday code with its 1.0.4?

One workaround, depending on your situation, might be to set 
your computer or process to GMT.



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