Thanks Jeff and Spencer, I will probably set the time zone for my session, but I had forgotten the possibility of setting the time zone attribute of a POSIXct object, which would have solved my problem also.
Denis Le 2011-06-05 à 11:14, Spencer Graves a écrit : > On 6/5/2011 9:30 AM, Jeff Newmiller wrote: >> Sys.setenv(TZ="Etc/GMT+5") > > Or: > > x <- as.POSIXct(as.Date('2011-01-15')) > attr(x, 'tzone') <- "Etc/GMT+5" > x > > > This version works without Sys.setenv, which may not work on some > platforms. Unfortunately, I believe there are some copy operations that lose > attributes like tzone, so you need to check. > > > For some of the most advanced and complicated time series problems, you > might consider what's available from the Rmetrics project, e.g., at > "https://www.rmetrics.org/ebooks": They are designed to deal with > coordinating trading data from financial markets all over the world, each of > which affects all the others but have different trading hours. > > > Hope this helps. > Spencer > >> Make the timezone you prefer the default for that R session. >> >> FWIW: EST may or may not exist as a valid timezone on your system, but it is >> an ambiguous notation anyway. >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... >> DCN:<jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... >> Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing >> Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with >> /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. >> >> Denis Chabot<chabot.de...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> For a project I try to keep everything in normal time, not daylight saving >> time, to prevent problem when instruments collected data during the nights >> when we go from DST to normal time. >> >> But sometimes R tricks me and I do not know how to prevent it. >> >> This is one example: >> >> lights_on = as.POSIXct(c("2011-05-06 04:09:26", "2011-05-07 04:07:53", >> "2011-05-08 04:06:21", >> "2011-05-09 04:04:51", "2011-05-10 04:03:22", "2011-05-11 04:01:55", >> "2011-05-12 04:00:30", "2011-05-13 03:59:06", "2011-05-14 03:57:45", >> "2011-05-15 03:56:25", "2011-05-16 03:55:07"), tz="EST") # not DST >> >> lights_off = as.POSIXct(c("2011-05-05 18:56:54", "2011-05-06 18:58:19", >> "2011-05-07 18:59:44", >> "2011-05-08 19:01:08", "2011-05-09 19:02:32", "2011-05-10 19:03:55", >> "2011-05-11 19:05:18", "2011-05-12 19:06:40", "2011-05-13 19:08:01", >> "2011-05-14 19:09:22", "2011-05-15 19:10:42" ), tz="EST") # not DST >> >> (a = lights_on[c(1,5)]) # not DST >> [1] "2011-05-06 04:09:26 EST" "2011-05-10 04:03:22 EST" >> >> (b = lights_off[c(2,6)]) # not DST >> [1] "2011-05-06 18:58:19 EST" "2011-05-10 19:03:55 EST" >> >> (x = c(lights_off[2], lights_on[2])) # suddenly DST >> [1] "2011-05-06 19:58:19 EDT" "2011-05-07 05:07:53 EDT" >> >> Why did x end up in DST? How could I prevent it? >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> Denis >> _____________________________________________ >> >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> > > > -- > Spencer Graves, PE, PhD > President and Chief Operating Officer > Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. > 751 Emerson Ct. > San José, CA 95126 > ph: 408-655-4567 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.