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...hat I've tried, and hence that's why the times are shown as 1pm and noon depending on whether it's NZST or NSDT. It appears to me that while the dates are known to the software as GMT, they are displayed in local time equivalent but before the differnce between them is calculated, that converson happens again whether we like it or not. Evidently, that's not what happens when as.numeric() is used before calculating the difference since in that case (with my data), the difference is always a whole number of days which is appropriate. Is my experience with date differences standard beh...

Hi, I'm on my very first steps to R and so I hope that I do not ask a really stupid questions but I did not found it via R-Search, in the FAQ or Google (BTW, the name "R" is not a really good seekiong criterion ;-) ). I have a data file containing a table that containes dates and values like date\t value1\t value2, ... 01.03.2007\t 17\t 42\t ... 02.03.2007\t 2\t 3\t ...