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On October 22, 2014 2:35:55 AM PDT, Vasantha Kumar Kesavan <info.vas...@gmail.com> wrote: >Hi, > >I am a new R user and also not sure about the below concern is really a >bug, > >My concern are listed below, > >Look at the below example, when Sys.Date () is called within the >as.POSIXlt >() function. Why it is displaying only the date value and the timezone >is >selected to UTC even though the TZ variable is set to "PST8PDT". I >could >not see this kind of behavior with as.POSIXct () function. > >This is happening in both LINUX 32 and 64 bit operating system. > > >Example: > >> version > _ >platform i386-redhat-linux-gnu >arch i386 >os linux-gnu >system i386, linux-gnu >status >major 2 >minor 10.0 >year 2009 >month 10 >day 26 >svn rev 50208 >language R >version.string R version 2.10.0 (2009-10-26) >> Sys.setenv(TZ="PST8PDT"); >> Sys.setenv(ORA_SDTZ="PST8PDT"); >> >> Sys.getenv("TZ"); > TZ >"PST8PDT" >> Sys.getenv("ORA_SDTZ"); > ORA_SDTZ >"PST8PDT" >> >> as.POSIXct(Sys.Date()); >[1] "2014-10-20 17:00:00 PDT" >> c(as.POSIXct(Sys.Date())); >[1] "2014-10-20 17:00:00 PDT" >> >> as.POSIXlt(Sys.Date()); >[1] "2014-10-21 UTC" >> c(as.POSIXlt(Sys.Date())); >[1] "2014-10-20 17:00:00 PDT" >> >> as.POSIXct(Sys.time()); >[1] "2014-10-21 20:59:23 PDT" >> c(as.POSIXct(Sys.time())); >[1] "2014-10-21 20:59:23 PDT" >> >> as.POSIXlt(Sys.time()); >[1] "2014-10-21 20:59:23 PDT" >> c(as.POSIXlt(Sys.time())); >[1] "2014-10-21 20:59:23 PDT" >> > >Thanks >Vasanth > > [[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. ______________________________________________ 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.