Re: [Rd] strptime problem for 2004-10-03 02:00:00

2005-10-26 Thread Michael Sumner
Great. Thanks for confirmation. Cheers, Mike. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ----------------

Re: [Rd] strptime problem for 2004-10-03 02:00:00

2005-10-25 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
It's a bug, a rather rare one. 2004-10-03 02:00:00 does not exist in your time zone, and in trying to find out if the time is on DST or not it has failed to find out. It needs to be told that GMT is never on DST so not to bother. On Linux, running R with TZ="GMT" set should fix this. Windows

[Rd] strptime problem for 2004-10-03 02:00:00

2005-10-24 Thread Michael Sumner
Hello, I at first thought this was a system or locale issue, but since it occurs on both Windows and Linux and only for 2004 (AFAIK) I report it. I have a problem with as.POSIXct for the hour between "2004-10-03 02:00:00 GMT" and "2004-10-03 02:59:59 GMT". In short, the 2 AM (GMT) hour in 2004