timeDate and date-time classes

[Kurt Hornik]

>>>>> Yohan Chalabi writes:

>>>>> "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.

Thanks, on CRAN now.

Best
-k


> Regards,
> Yohan

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