timeDate and date-time classes

[Yohan Chalabi]

>>>> "PBR" == Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
>>>> on Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:58:51 +0100 (BST)

   PBR> We are changing some of the internals of date-time classes
   PBR> in R-devel,
   PBR> which affects people who want to assign to slots of S4 class
   PBR> "POSIXct".  I've attached a patch for timeDate -- of course
   PBR> 2.12.0 is months off, but the idea is to cover the changes
   PBR> under
   PBR> a .POSIXct function.
   PBR>
   PBR> I notice you use "GMT": since that can be confusing (it is
   PBR> used by
   PBR> Microsoft as the name of the UK timezone), "UTC" is both
   PBR> clearer and
   PBR> more politically correct.
   PBR>
   PBR> Since several packages depends directly or indirectly on
   PBR> timeDate we
   PBR> would appreciate an early update for CRAN.
   PBR>
   PBR> Brian Ripley

Thank you very much for your help !

I have applied your patch and uploaded a new version of timeDate to
CRAN.

Regards,
Yohan

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