Isn't that a timestamp that doesn't exist in standard US timezones? Maybe use a timezone that doesn't consider daylight savings (like "Etc/GMT+5")? --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.
On July 30, 2014 10:08:58 AM PDT, John McKown <john.archie.mck...@gmail.com> wrote: >"I'm so confused!" Why does is.na() report TRUE for a POSIXlt date & >time of 2014-03-09 02:00:00 ? > >> q >[1] "2014-03-09 02:00:00" >> is.na(q) >[1] TRUE >> as.POSIXct(q) >[1] NA >> dput(q) >structure(list(sec = 0, min = 0L, hour = 2, mday = 9L, mon = 2L, > year = 114L, wday = 0L, yday = 67L, isdst = 0L, zone = "", > gmtoff = NA_integer_), .Names = c("sec", "min", "hour", "mday", >"mon", "year", "wday", "yday", "isdst", "zone", "gmtoff"), class = >c("POSIXlt", >"POSIXt")) >> str(q) > POSIXlt[1:1], format: "2014-03-09 02:00:00" >> ______________________________________________ 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.