On Oct 22, 2014, at 7:46 PM, Jeff Newmiller wrote:
> Because PST8PDT probably is not a valid TZ on your operating system. Try
> "America/LosAngeles"
For me (on a Mac) it has an intervening dash:
> Sys.timezone(location = TRUE)
[1] "America/Los_Angeles"
However, on a mac the system returns a differnt results:
> Sys.getenv("TZ")
[1] ""
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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
>>
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