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Hey R folks, i found some strange (to me) behaviour with chron to POSIXct conversion. The two lines of code result in two different results, on ewith the correct time zone, one without: library(chron) as.POSIXct(chron('12/12/2000'), tz = 'UTC') as.POSIXlt(chron('12/12/2000'), tz = 'UTC') Only the code below would give me a POSIXct object with the correct time

Dear R-helpers, I have a problem converting an object made with the 'chron' function to a POSIXct object: # Make date based on DOY dat <- chron(dates=232, origin.=c(month=1, day=1, year=2008)) dat #[1] 08/20/08 # Converting to POSIXct uses current timezone (Sydney): as.POSIXct(dat) #[1] "2008-08-20 10:00:00 EST" # Setting GMT timezone has no effect? as.POSIXct(dat,

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

Hi, I'm a bit confused how julian() works. If I understand right, it returns the number of days since the origin. I have a vector: > SLDATX[1:10] [1] "1986-01-06" "1986-01-17" "1986-02-02" "1986-02-04" [5] "1986-02-04" "1986-02-21" "1986-03-06" "1986-03-25" [9] "1986-04-06"

Hi, Can strptime (or some other function) help me turn the following column of a data.frame into two new columns, one as date and the other as time, preserving the AM/PM value? Thanks, Mark > B ENTRY DATE 1 3/23/2009 6:30:00 AM 2 3/23/2009 6:30:00 AM 3 3/23/2009 6:39:00 AM 4 3/23/2009 6:39:00 AM 5 3/23/2009 6:48:00 AM 6 3/23/2009 6:48:00 AM 7 3/23/2009 7:00:00 AM

Dear R list, I noticed the following 'problem' when changing the format of dates created with seq.dates() (from the Chron library) using as.POSIXct() (R 1.8.0 on OSX 10.2.8): > datesTest<-seq.dates(from="10/01/1952", length=3, by="days"); > datesTest [1] 10/01/52 10/02/52 10/03/52 # Now changing the format to show year as 1952. >

I have some questions and comments on timezones. Problem 1. # get current time in current time zone > (now <- Sys.time()) [1] "2003-07-29 18:23:58 Eastern Daylight Time" # convert this to GMT > (now.gmt <- as.POSIXlt(now,tz="GMT")) [1] "2003-07-29 22:23:58 GMT" # take difference > now-now.gmt Time difference of -5 hours Note that the difference

Hi. This feels like a bug to me, or at least an undocumented feature, but I thought I'd see what people here thought of it. Consider a POSIXlt object like this one: > a <- as.POSIXlt ("2011-01-23 12:45:45") > class (a) [1] "POSIXlt" "POSIXt" Fine. Now, if I do some arithmetic on that object, the result is converted to POSIXct. > class (a

Full_Name: Arni Magnusson Version: 1.6.2 OS: Windows XP Submission from: (NULL) (210.48.49.68) Hi there. I'm experiencing unexpected behaviour from as.POSIXct: > as.POSIXct("1969-12-24") [1] "1969-12-23 23:00:00 New Zealand Standard Time" > as.POSIXlt("1969-12-24") [1] "1969-12-24" > as.POSIXlt("1969-12-24")+1 [1] "1969-12-23

The return value of Sys.time() today with a timezone of US/Eastern is unchanged between 4.0.3-patched and devel, but on devel the following test fails all.equal(x, as.POSIXlt(x)) with x = Sys.time() This means that devel does not complete make tests (failure on tests/reg-tests-2.R) It is entirely possible that it is an error on my end, I use export TZ="US/Eastern" but I have been

Yes, the potential issue I see is that make check fails when I explicitly set TZ. However, I set it to be the same as what the system reports when I login. Details: The system (RHEL) I am working on has $ strings /etc/localtime | tail -n 1 EST5EDT,M3.2.0,M11.1.0 $ date +%Z EDT $ echo $TZ US/Eastern On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 9:48 AM Sebastian Meyer <seb.meyer at fau.de> wrote: > Thank

Dear all, As of the current R alpha release, I'm seeing timezone-related warnings on installing any package (including the recommended ones), which I haven't seen before. For example, [~/Documents/Source/R-alpha]$ bin/R CMD INSTALL ~/git/tractor/lib/reportr * installing to library '/Users/jon/Documents/Source/R-alpha/library' * installing *source* package 'reportr' ...

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

Hi, I have two data sources. One records time in PST time zone, the other in GMT. I want to compute the difference between the two, but don't see how. Here is an example where I compute time difference between identical times each (meant to be) relative to its time zone. > as.POSIXlt("2000-05-10 10:15:00", "PST") - as.POSIXlt("2000-05-10 10:15:00",

Hello, Following Dirk's post here: https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table/issues/1619 we would like to clarify if this is the right behaviour, and if so, the rationale behind it. Here's the summary (thanks to Dirk and Joshua): Sys.setenv("TZ"="America/Chicago") dates = as.Date("2016-03-02") + (0:3)*7 # four Wednesdays # [1] "2016-03-02"

Full_Name: Erich Neuwirth Version: 2.3.1 OS: Windows XP, Linux Submission from: (NULL) (131.130.135.167) Converting Sys.Date() to a POSIX compliant time type in different ways produces inconsistent results: > Sys.date() [1] "2006-09-01" > as.POSIXct(Sys.Date()) [1] "2006-09-01 02:00:00 CEST" > as.POSIXlt(Sys.Date()) [1] "2006-09-01" >

The documentation for the POSIXlt class states '"POSIXlt" objects will often have an attribute "tzone", a character vector of length 3 giving the time zone name from the TZ environment variable and the names of the base time zone and the alternate (daylight-saving) time zone. Sometimes this may just be of length one, giving the time zone

Hi list, I have some questions regarding 1) conversion of date + time characters to chron 2) formatting chron object printing Regarding (1), Gabor's Rnews 2004 4/1 article has been indispensible, but I often work with files where dates and times are contained in a single field. In this case, I would like to control input/output of chron objects when each observation of date and time is

I have two data frames, with two columns each, the first being a Date variable. I would like to convert them to xts objects, indexed by the Date column. I would like to use as.Date and not as.POSIXct as the dateformat. The puzzling fact is that it works for the first one but not the other. Here is a screenshot of the error: > str(DF1) 'data.frame': 367 obs. of 2 variables: $

The R script I run daily for hours looks like this: while (!finish) { Sys.sleep(0.1) time = as.integer(format(Sys.time(), "%H%M")) # always crash here if (new.data.timestamp() <= time) next # ... do some jobs for about 2 minutes ... gc() } Basically it waits for new data, which comes in every 10 minutes, and do some jobs, then gc(), then loop again. It