Hi Dzidas,

This is a bug in the construction of the xts object.  Well, more like a
missing feature.  I will work on adding in the ability to specify the
timezone.

Thanks,
Jeff

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Dzidas <dzidorius@gmail.com> wrote:

> How can I specify the timezone in reqHistoricalData method? I tried this
> way:
> reqHistoricalData(tws,twsSTK('IBM'),'20110417 00:00:26 EST',"5 mins","5
> D","1")
> but it returns based on my locale or tws.
> For an example:
>
> 2011-04-11  21:55:00,163.76,163.95,163.69,163.89,1361,163.8,0,949 <-end of
> trading session, CET time
> 2011-04-12  15:30:00,163.49,163.57,163.2,163.41,1331,163.37,0,418 <-start
> of
> trading session, CET time
>
> I can convert it later on, but it is very difficult, because I use CET by
> default and there is a lag in summer time between CET and EST. And it gets
> very messy.
>
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