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Running under Windows XP 64 bit, as.POSIXlt()/as.POSIXct() seem to think that US time zones (EST5EDT, MST7MDT) switched from daylight savings back to standard time on Oct 28, 2007, whereas the switch is actually on Sun Nov 04, 2007. Examples: > Sys.timezone() [1] "Mountain Daylight Time" > as.POSIXct("2007-10-30 12:38:47") [1] "2007-10-30 12:38:47 Mountain Daylight Time&q...

tplate at acm.org wrote: > Running under Windows XP 64 bit, as.POSIXlt()/as.POSIXct() seem > to think that US time zones (EST5EDT, MST7MDT) switched from daylight > savings back to standard time on Oct 28, 2007, whereas the switch > is actually on Sun Nov 04, 2007. > > =20 Not Our Problem. (This sort of thing never is. We are wholly dependent=20 on the OS for this information). Check out http://support.microsoft.com/kb/9...

Hello, I just built openssh 3.8p1 on an HP-UX 11i machine. All looks well except for the timezone. I'm noticing now that when it logs stuff to syslog, it's off by 2 hours for me. What I've figured is this: My timezone is MST7MDT (mountain time). The timezone in /etc/default/tz is EST5EDT (eastern time). There's a 2 hour difference between mountain & eastern time. What I'm thinking is the real problem, is that it is not looking at the TZ environment variable to get its own setting for the timezone when it st...

...) [1] "Mountain Daylight Time" > If I explicitly set env var TZ, the conversion problems go away, but the time reported by Sys.time() is inappropriately not in daylight saving time: > Sys.time() [1] "2007-10-30 13:14:38 Mountain Daylight Time" > Sys.setenv(TZ="MST7MDT") > Sys.time() [1] "2007-10-30 12:14:51 MST" > If I set my system timezone to Eastern Daylight Time, and restart R, I also get problematic behavior (as.POSIXlt inappropriately adjusting a time by an hour on the day after Daylight saving time ends): > Sys.timezone() [1]...