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I think POSIXct and POSIXlt are badly-chosen names. The name "POSIX" implies UNIX. (i.e. XYZix operating system is mostly POSIX compliant... Woo-Hoo!). My assumption is that most people modelling industrial/econometric data etc, or data imported from databases, don't want system references everywhere. Historically, I've use the principle that: If programming language A uses function...

This is mostly a RFC [but *not* about the many extra packages, please..]: Noticing to my chagrin how my students work in a project, googling for R code and cut'n'pasting stuff together, accumulating this and that package on the way all just for simple daily time series (though with partly missing parts), using chron, zoo, lubridate, ... all for things that are very easy in base R *IF*