Re: [R] POSIX system oddities

2020-03-29 Thread Sebastien Bihorel via R-help
Duh !!! Thanks. From: Peter Langfelder Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2020 20:12 To: Sebastien Bihorel Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] POSIX system oddities The time has changed from "standard" (EST) to "Daylight saving" (EDT) whic

Re: [R] POSIX system oddities

2020-03-29 Thread Peter Langfelder
The time has changed from "standard" (EST) to "Daylight saving" (EDT) which shaves off 1 hour. Peter On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 5:03 PM Sebastien Bihorel via R-help < r-help@r-project.org> wrote: > Hi, > > Why is there less number of seconds on 03/10/2019 in the internal POSIX > system? The differe

[R] POSIX system oddities

2020-03-29 Thread Sebastien Bihorel via R-help
Hi, Why is there less number of seconds on 03/10/2019 in the internal POSIX system? The difference between the previous or the next day eems to be exactly 1 hour. I could not find anything in the manuals on CRAN. > dates <- as.POSIXct(sprintf('03/%s/2019',9:12), format = '%m/%d/%Y') > dates [1]