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Bill Harris <bill_har...@facilitatedsystems.com> wrote:

I'm reading in ~3 years worth of data that includes hourly timestamps. 
Presumably to avoid DST confusion, all the data is in PST time zone -- no 
discontinuities in the spring or fall. The data comes in a csv file, which I'm 
reading with myvariable <- read.csv("my_data_file.csv",header=FALSE, 
col.names=c("timedate","values"),colClasses=c("POSIXct","numeric")) The time 
zone comes in as PST or PDT, as appropriate. That leads to problems in the 
spring: > temps$timedate[2185:2190] [1] "2006-04-02 00:00:00 PST" "2006-04-02 
01:00:00 PST" [3] NA "2006-04-02 03:00:00 PDT" [5] "2006-04-02 04:00:00 PDT" 
"2006-04-02 05:00:00 PDT" I presume it gets PST/PDT from my (Windows) system; I 
can't set it with > force_tz(ymd_hms("2007-03-11 01:00:00"),tzone="PST") (from 
the lubridate package), but see > force_tz(ymd_hms("2006-04-02 
01:00:00"),tzone="America/Los_Angeles") [1] "2006-04-02 01:00:00 PST" What I'd 
like to do is keep all the time in standard time so I don't lose the 2 a.m. 
data. Presuma
 bly the
damage is done by the time it's read in. For example, > 
force_tz(temps$timedate[2185:2190], tzone="UTC") [1] "2006-04-02 00:00:00 UTC" 
"2006-04-02 01:00:00 UTC" [3] NA "2006-04-02 03:00:00 UTC" [5] "2006-04-02 
04:00:00 UTC" "2006-04-02 05:00:00 UTC" Any advice? Thanks, 
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