Re: [R] Difference between times

2014-04-20 Thread David Winsemius
On Apr 20, 2014, at 2:16 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On 20/04/2014 08:50, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >> On 18/04/2014 21:46, David Winsemius wrote: >>> >>> On Apr 18, 2014, at 12:59 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >>> On 18/04/2014 19:46, Rui Barradas wrote: > Hello, > > The rea

Re: [R] Difference between times

2014-04-20 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 20/04/2014 08:50, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On 18/04/2014 21:46, David Winsemius wrote: On Apr 18, 2014, at 12:59 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On 18/04/2014 19:46, Rui Barradas wrote: Hello, The reason why is that you've misspelled CET (not CEST) Neither CET nor CEST are portable time-z

Re: [R] Difference between times

2014-04-20 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 18/04/2014 21:46, David Winsemius wrote: On Apr 18, 2014, at 12:59 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On 18/04/2014 19:46, Rui Barradas wrote: Hello, The reason why is that you've misspelled CET (not CEST) Neither CET nor CEST are portable time-zone names. We have not been given the 'at a m

Re: [R] Difference between times

2014-04-19 Thread Nicola Sturaro Sommacal
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Re: [R] Difference between times

2014-04-19 Thread Nicola Sturaro Sommacal
Thank you for your reply. I discovered the OlsonNames() function to get the time-zone names in my system. Rui get a warning message when using a not recognized tz. On my system this doesn't succed. I solved as follow: dt1 = as.POSIXct("2014-04-18 09.00", format="%Y-%m-%d %H.%M", tz = "Europe/Rom

Re: [R] Difference between times

2014-04-18 Thread David Winsemius
On Apr 18, 2014, at 12:59 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On 18/04/2014 19:46, Rui Barradas wrote: >> Hello, >> >> The reason why is that you've misspelled CET (not CEST) > > Neither CET nor CEST are portable time-zone names. We have not been given > the 'at a minimum' information required by

Re: [R] Difference between times

2014-04-18 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 18/04/2014 19:46, Rui Barradas wrote: Hello, The reason why is that you've misspelled CET (not CEST) Neither CET nor CEST are portable time-zone names. We have not been given the 'at a minimum' information required by the posting guide, so please read ?Sys.timezone on your system.

Re: [R] Difference between times

2014-04-18 Thread Rui Barradas
Hello, The reason why is that you've misspelled CET (not CEST) > dt1 = as.POSIXct("2014-04-18 09.00", format="%Y-%m-%d %H.%M", tz = "CEST") Warning messages: 1: In strptime(x, format, tz = tz) : unknown timezone 'CEST' 2: In as.POSIXct.POSIXlt(as.POSIXlt(x, tz, ...), tz, ...) : unknown timez

[R] Difference between times

2014-04-18 Thread Nicola Sturaro Sommacal
Hi. I am new to POSIX and I'd like to understand the reason of this difference. dt1 = as.POSIXct("2014-03-29 09.00", format="%Y-%m-%d %H.%M") dt2 = as.POSIXct("2014-03-30 09.00", format="%Y-%m-%d %H.%M") dt2-dt1 > dt1[1] "2014-03-29 09:00:00 CET"> dt2[1] "2014-03-30 09:00:00 CEST"> dt2-dt1 Time