Misunderstanding/issues or even bug in timDate

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> Samo Pahor <samo.pahor at gmail.com>
>>>>>     on Sat, 24 Sep 2011 11:10:50 +0200 writes:

    > Hello authors of great rmetrics package, I use your
    > packages on a daily basis supporting my market
    > analysis. Thank you for all your efforts
    > developing/maintaining them.

    > I have encountered some issues (or I may not be understanding the
    > design) while using dateTime package. I have ask a question about the
    > issue here
    > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7525226/find-whether-a-particular-date-is-an-option-expiration-friday-problem-with-timeand

We are typically not reading that...

    > user DWin researched a bit and send you a report on the issue.

Yes, though it was not reproducible:
The crucial part is timezone-dependent !

    > If this is a bug, can I in anyway help/assist you in order
    > to get the patch for the package on r-forge as soon as
    > possible? I am desperately dependent on correct
    > functioning of particular functions in very useful
    > timeDate.

I have now committed patches to the R-forge version of
'timeDate',
	as revision 5121
{this is *not* yet visible on R-forge; you need to wait a few
hours, and for the binary Windows or Mac package, probably even a day
or two ...}

Best regards,
Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich