It does seem that as.POSIXct.date doesn't respect the tz= argument the
generic suggests it would. I'd think this is a bug that could be
changed without breaking back-compatibility, but I don't have the
power to make such things happen.
R-Core ruling?
Michael
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 2:25 AM, Jannis <bt_jan...@yahoo.de> wrote:
> 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
> zone:
>
> as.POSIXct(as.POSIXlt(chron('12/12/2000'), tz = 'UTC'))
>
>
> Is this a bug or desired behaviour?
>
>
>
> Thanks a lot
> Jannis
>
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