[R-SIG-Mac] POSIXct and chron error

[Lou Springer]

Posix time is UTC or GMT and you displayed that as EDT. 16:00 EDT is 20:00 GMT/UTC

On Sep 23, 2014, at 3:09 PM, Paul Ossenbruggen <pjo at cisunix.unh.edu> wrote:

> Why does the following incorrectly subtract 4 hours from times = �20:00:00�?
> 
>> date = "03/31/10"
>> times = "20:00:00"
>> as.POSIXct(chron(date, times, format=c(dates="M/D/Y", times="hh:mm:ss")))
> [1] "2010-03-31 16:00:00 EDT�
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Paul
> 
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