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2006 Oct 27
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POSIXct time zone and daylight savings issues
Hello,
Suppose we need a function that takes a POSIXct object and need to
calculate the time difference between it and GMT time:
gmtDiff <- function(time) {
time.gmt <- as.POSIXct(format(time, tz="GMT"))
time.plt <- as.POSIXlt(time)
dlstime <- ifelse(time.plt$isdst > 0, 1, 0)
timezone <- as.numeric(difftime(time, time.gmt, units="hours"))
timezone - dlstime
}
Please note th...