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? Thu, 10 Oct 2024 17:16:52 +0200 Jan van der Laan <rhelp at eoos.dds.nl> ?????: > This is where it is unclear to me what the purpose is of the `zone` > element of the POSIXlt object. It does allow for registering a time > zone per element. It just seems to be ignored. I think that since POSIXlt is an interface to what the C standard calls the "broken-down" time (into

It is not completely clear to me how time zones work with POSIXlt objects. For POSIXct, I can understand what happens: time is always stored in GMT, the `tzone` attribute only affects how the times are displayed. All computations etc. are done in GMT. POSIXlt objects have both a `tzone` attribute and a `zone` field. It seems that the `zone` field is largely ignored. It only seems to be used

?s 15:13 de 10/10/2024, Jeff Newmiller via R-help escreveu: > POSIXt vectors do not support different time zones element-to-element. > > If you want to keep track of timezones per element, you have to create a vector of timestamps (I would recommend POSIXct using UTC) and a parallel vector of timezone strings. How you manipulate these depends on your use cases, but from R's

Sys.setenv(TZ = "GMT") will set the local time zone to GMT so there would only be one time zone regardless of whether local or GMT were used. On Thu, Oct 10, 2024 at 11:17?AM Jan van der Laan <rhelp at eoos.dds.nl> wrote: > > Thanks. > > On 10/10/24 16:13, Jeff Newmiller wrote: > > POSIXt vectors do not support different time zones element-to-element. > >

Thanks. On 10/10/24 16:13, Jeff Newmiller wrote: > POSIXt vectors do not support different time zones element-to-element. > I complained about this on this list a couple of decades ago, and was chastised for it. Evidently handling timezones per element was considered to be too impractically slow to be a standard feature. This is where it is unclear to me what the purpose is of the

POSIXt vectors do not support different time zones element-to-element. If you want to keep track of timezones per element, you have to create a vector of timestamps (I would recommend POSIXct using UTC) and a parallel vector of timezone strings. How you manipulate these depends on your use cases, but from R's perspective you will have to manipulate them element-by-element. I complained about