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...specify the time zone on which I was working (actually GTM + 8:00)? I have read in R-help that this is system dependent, but the how to do it still escape. Working with Windows, I have checked the following address given by Gabor Grothendieck in R-help, http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/90s5c885.aspx, but I cannot manage with the syntax: *TZ*=tzn[+ | ?]hh[*:*mm[*:*ss] ][dzn]. They mention a three lettre time zone (where can the corresponding codes be found?) to which to add a difference in hours between UTC and the local time... but any trial I did specifying tz="UTM+08" or o...

The manual entry for as.POSIX says this about time zone codes... Usage as.POSIXct(x, tz = "") tz A timezone specification to be used for the conversion... but it fails to mention what these "specifications" are. So far, I have tried... as.POSIX(x, tz="UTC") ... works, gives UTC times as.POSIX(x, tz="UTC") ... works, gives EST times as.POSIX(x,

Hi, I''ve been trying to do timezone conversion, and have some trouble getting it to work on my Windows machine. Searching the web, I found http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowtoSetDefaultTimeZone ...which explains how to set the default timezone. I''m using an environment.rb that include the lines: ActiveRecord::Base.default_timezone = :utc ENV[''TZ''] =

...t.math.ethz.ch Message-ID: <971536df0603070713q25d8b1c3w927c6333bddd38a6 at mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Each OS would presumably have to document it. I personally use Windows and in that case there is some info here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/90s5c885.aspx On 3/7/06, Jason Horn <jason at 109valentine.com> wrote: > Thank you again Gabor, that did the trick. Any thoughts on where I > go go for a reference for these time codes? Where did you get > "CDT6CST" from? Or is this just one of those things that is "common...