Re: [Rd] So-called 'bug' reports PR#8102 and PR#8103

2005-08-31 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Windows XP, R-devel (2005-08-31 r35465) > tm <- ISOdate(2005, 08, 29, hour = 12, tz = "EST5EDT") > tm [1] "2005-08-29 12:00:00 EDT" > tm + 0 [1] "2005-08-29 12:00:00 EDT" > tm + 3600 [1] "2005-08-29 13:00:00 EDT" > tm + c(0,1) * 3600 [1] "2005-08-29 12:00:00 EDT" "2005-08-29 13:00:00 EDT" (R 2.1.

[Rd] So-called 'bug' reports PR#8102 and PR#8103

2005-08-31 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Neither of these have reached me on R-devel (and only PR#8103 is on the archive), and they seem to be the same error although neither mentions the other. That's 'odd', to quote one of them. "EDT" is not a valid POSIX timezone (but, say, EST5EDT is). R's docs are quite clear that what happens