similar to: Date time conversion bug (as.POSIXct)?

Dear list-members, I would like to calculate the difference between two points in time. To convert a 'time (GMT)'-character with the format "1/1/1999 01:01:01" into an object of class "POSIXct"', I first use the strptime() as suggested in the details help(as.POSIXct). e.g. starttime<-strptime("1/1/1999 01:01:01",format="%d/%m/%Y %H:%M:%S")

There is incompatibility between R strptime and musl libc. I posted about it on their mailing list, but they need more information I can't provide, so I'm forwarding the message here in hope R developers can help. Thanks. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Rich Felker <dalias at libc.org> Date: Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 2:07 PM Subject: Re: [musl] strptime() question To: Alba

I think the following examples illustrate the crux of the matter (version and OS info are below). The problem has to do with the transition from standard time to daylight savings time. My timezone, US/Pacific, has two parts: standard time (PST) 8 hours behind GMT and daylight savings time (PDT) 7 hours behind GMT. The transition takes place this year on 7 April at 02:00, when 02:00 is

Hi Gabor and everybody; Thanks Gabor, with the alternative step you've told me the problem is resolved. Comparing the two procedures: Extract from the source 'character' data: > rain$ts[2039:2046] [1] "25/03/2000 22:00:00 UTC" "25/03/2000 23:00:00 UTC" [3] "26/03/2000 00:00:00 UTC" "26/03/2000 01:00:00 UTC" [5] "26/03/2000 02:00:00

Apologies for the intrusion. I am a lurker on list. I have been working to convert a digitized signal from a matlab file into R for analysis and other applications. R.matlab is working fine, and it is easy to convert the matlab date-time number (days since year 0) into R date-time numbers (seconds since 1970-01-01). Unfortunately, when I cast the R date-time number into POSIXct format it seems

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"))

Hi, Using the following simple character vector representing a time series with fractional seconds: datetime <- c("20/09/2011 13:00:59.00", "20/09/2011 13:00:59.02", "20/09/2011 13:00:59.04") Conversion to POSIXct runs into problems; the second element is not interpreted correctly: ---<--------------------cut

Hi All In trying to correlate some tide gauge data I need to deal with varying timezones. From the documentation on strptime, it seemed that the tz variable might have some effect on the conversion, but I'm not seeing an effect. > strptime("20061201 1:02 PST",format="%Y%m%d %H:%M",tz="PST")+0 [1] "2006-12-01 01:02:00 EST" >

I decided my earlier email on this topic was rather long and wordy; here's a condensed version. I am sitting at a Solaris computer in the US/Pacific timezone. I have a file of data having times that includes the following three values 2002-4-7 1:30:00 GMT 2002-4-7 2:30:00 GMT 2002-4-7 3:30:00 GMT I have not been able to find a way to correctly convert these to either of the POSIX

Under platform i686-pc-linux-gnu arch i686 os linux-gnu system i686, linux-gnu status major 1 minor 6.1 year 2002 month 11 day 01 language R > x <- strptime(c('10/10/1969','12/31/2002'),format='%m/%d/%Y')

Dear R-help, I was trying to convert a date and time record extracted from a fortran subroutine I worte and I encounter some problem. The data read in time and date in a format like "2000-05-11_01:00:00.0000" in fortran output. It is in GMT. I need to convert it to CST (GMT+8). I did the following steps. > cdate [1] "2000-05-11_01:00:00.0000\005\003" # I am not sure

Folks, I'm having trouble with how datetime objects with time zones are set and plotted. This may be the result of my running R (2.4.0) on a Windoze XP box. Perhaps not. Here are two example problems I need advise on if you have time: 1) I collect data with dates (often as a fractional day of year) in UTC. Using strptime to create date time objects appears to force the data into

Full_Name: Martin Lenze Version: 1.8.0 alpha (2003-09-18) OS: Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195], SP4 Submission from: (NULL) (82.82.76.131) Seems to be related to PR#1332... Hello, I get: > Sys.getlocale() [1] "LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252;LC_MONETARY=C;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252" >

Hi. I'm trying to take the difference in days between two times. Can you point out what's wrong, or suggest a different function? When I try the following code, The following code works fine: a <- strptime(1911100807,format="%Y%m%d%H",tz="GMT") b <- strptime(1911102718,format="%Y%m%d%H",tz="GMT") x <- difftime(b, a,

A newbie here - please forgive me if this is a basic question. We have an in house package built in R 2.2.1 (yes we're a little behind the times at our firm)and would like to rebuild it using R 2.5.1. However, when I try and build the package from source, I keep getting this error: Error in as(slotVal, slotClass, strict = FALSE) : no method or default for coercing "POSIXt"

I'm trying to generate POSIXct times in a call to a C function. However, I'm having trouble generating times with the proper offset from UTC. Can anyone offer any help with this issue? I've looked at R-2.0.1/src/main/datetime.c, but I was not able to find an example that I could easily pull from that file. Thanks in advance, Whit Here is my example in C: #include <stdio.h>

Dear Listers, Apologize to pile up on the 'tz' issue in POSIX objects. I have a 'simple' thing on which I must make up my mind but cannot do it from the existing R-help threads. I am currently working on dog telemetry in China, and download time information from GPS collars. I would like to set up the corresponding POSIXxx variables in R to a given time zone. Eg Pekin

Hi Ben Thanks for your answer I have already tried this, as well as x <- as.POSIXct(strptime("2002-02-02 02:02", "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M")) It works! But it does not fix it widely for all tests used during the "make check" step at compile time. Unless I patch all of them. There is something with localtime but I cannot find what. On another machine with another

Hi, I'm getting a segmentation fault as follows: ---<--------------------cut here---------------start------------------->--- R> begt <- as.POSIXct(strptime("10/01/2009 06:00:00", format="%d/%m/%Y %H:%M:%S"), + tz="GMT") R> tser <- seq(begt, by=5, length.out=91000) R> tser.trunc <- format(tser) Error: segfault from C

Hi all; I've already send a similar e-mail to the list and Prof. Brian Ripley answered me but my doubts remain unresolved. Thanks for the clarification, but perhaps I wasn't clear enough in posting my questions. I've got a postgres database which I read into R. The first column is Timestamp with timezone, and my data are already in UTC format. An 'printed' extract of R